Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until shortly after noon on March 4, will the country see directly and officially into the Presidential mind of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. At that hour he will plant himself on a flag-draped platform on the East steps of the Capitol and deliver his inaugural address to his countrymen, forgotten and otherwise...
...each other and to their friends George Burns and Gracie Allen are "Nat" and "Googie." George was born Nat Birnbaum, one of twelve children of a Manhattan East Side clothing manufacturer. At 11 he was on the stage, giving imitations of stage stars he had never seen. Gracie danced jigs, played brogue parts up & down the Pacific Coast in an Irish troupe. Ten years ago George Burns and Gracie Allen teamed up in vaudeville in Boonton, N. J. at $10 a performance. At first it was Gracie who played the exasperated "straight" to George's fatuous lines. Audiences awarded...
...tenement-walled, children-cluttered street of Manhattan's lower East Side works Professor Park. For 38 years he has been a great Name in immunology. His New York Board of Health vaccines and serums are esteemed throughout the world. New York University medical students have learned bacteriology & hygiene from him since 1897. But somehow the man's personality has escaped the record...
...Park's own office looks over the East River. There he sits in a leather upholstered swivel chair, one leg across the other, hands locked behind his thin silvery hair, thinking or talking. He has a dry, brittle, rapid voice, smiles easily. His staff venerate him, play tennis with him (he was 69 last month) on the court adjoining the laboratory building. In summer he fishes in the St. Lawrence...
...Angeles, was supposed to begin service Dec. 12 (TIME, Dec. 12). On that night blizzards raged. Rather than risk an inauspicious start the company waited for good weather, finally got into the air Dec. 18. In its first 30 days operation, bad weather forced it to cancel seven flights east bound, nine westbound...