Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forty-nine East 65th Street, Manhattan, is not a speakeasy. It is the home of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Yet last week an ignorant observer might easily have mistaken its identity as he watched people flock in to see the next President of the U. S. and then flock out again...
...case of the President-elect your out spoken frankness is less pointed than the prevailing skeleton-in -the -cupboard attitude. Achievement is enhanced by physical handicap. Along with your range and terseness your great asset is your lifelike picturing of humans and happenings. Carry on, TIME. A. S. MACGREGOR East Aurora, X. Y. No clear majority of readers "commands otherwise." Scores of letters through last week: 238 con, 252 pro. This TIME construes as a firm mandate to continue mirroring Nature with respect to President-elect Roosevelt, since objectors far more prone to write than approvers. Managers Praised . . . Congratulations...
...When do we eat? We want action!" screamed a score of Communists one night last week as they shoved past a police cordon into Manhattan's East 65th Street and took up a defiant stand before the brownstone house of President-elect Roosevelt. Being photographed on the steps of the house were five Senators and six Representatives, Democrats all, who had just arrived from Washington for a party conference with their national leader. The Communists shook fists, hooted, yelled. The Congressmen beat a quick retreat inside the Roosevelt home. The police with many a fisticuff and nightstick thwack cleared...
...While smokers were filling their cigaret cases last week for 1? less than the week before, a 1?-a-gallon cut in the price of gasoline in all territory east of the Rocky...
Mountains enabled motorists to fill their tanks for 10? to 15? less. The gasoline price slash, led by Harry Ford Sinclair's Consolidated Oil Corp., followed sporadic price-cutting in the East and Midwest during the last fortnight...