Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House. ¶ With the President absent, the White House offices were cleaned and painted for his successor. Because of the President-elect's lameness, short ramps will replace steps at the side door of the executive offices leading to the White House and in the east end of the second-floor hall leading to the Lincoln Study. Also under consideration was the construction of a small warm-water swimming pool in the White House basement, similar to the one Mr. Roosevelt had in the Executive Mansion conservatory at Albany, where he took regular underwater leg exercises between trips...
...years the U. S. has gradually increased its domain by battle and bargain until today 137,008,435 persons live under its flag from Point Barrow on the North to Pago-Pago on the South, from St. Croix on the East to Balabac Island on the West.* Last week Congress sent to the White House the first bill in history proposing that the U. S. decrease its territorial empire...
...eyes & ears" in 1931, have been loud in their opposition to turning 13,000,000 Filipinos loose. Common arguments against freeing the Philippines: 1) they are not economically or politically prepared to govern themselves; 2) their freedom would upset the delicate balance of international power in the Far East; 3) U. S. citizens who have invested $197,000,000 developing the islands would be wiped out by the economic chaos to follow; 4) the U. S. would breach its moral trust to prepare the Filipinos for self-government; 5) Congress has no constitutional power to alienate U. S. territory...
...going off the gold standard were not enough last week, South Africa shivered two days later from earth tremors in all her four provinces: Cape of Good Hope, seat of Cape Town at Africa's nether tip; Natal on the east coast; the inland Orange Free State; and the Northern Transvaal, seat of Pretoria, the. Union administrative capital, 850 mi. northeast of Cape Town. Severest shocks were felt in Natal where brick houses cracked open, some collapsing. In Johannesburg, largest South African city (pop. 288,000) 40 mi. south of Pretoria, doors and windows rattled, bric-a-brac fell...
...tablet erected in the New Memorial Church to the memory of the three Harvard men who died during the World War fighting on the side of the Central Powers was moved again yesterday to a more conspicuous place on the east wall of the Church proper. The new position is almost opposite the main entrance to the Church and is in plain sight of all in the Church...