Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years Dr. Cowles directed the "Body & Soul" medical clinic of Manhattan's St. Marks-in-the-Bouwerie, where with noteworthy success he reorganized bewildered minds of that Episcopalian congregation and their heterogeneous East Side-West Side guests. Bishop William Thomas Manning objected, forced the "Body & Soul" clinic out of St. Mark's (TIME, July 25). Dr. Cowles organized the Cowles Psychiatric Foundation which conducts a free clinic in a public hall which he & rich friends have hired for philanthropy...
...drive second-hand buses between the development and the railroad station. Whatever his sons may have thought, bus operating was not so bad for Harris Nevin. He incorporated his two buses into a $250,000 company. In 1924 he started one of the first interstate bus lines in the East, between Manhattan and Philadelphia, with Wanamaker department stores as terminals. Since then he has bought up some 40 lines radiating throughout the East and South, has abandoned real estate for good. And last week Nevin Bus Line acquired Crandic Stages Inc. (subsidiary of Iowa Electric Light & Power Co.), operating...
...Supreme Court soundly rebuked the Governor of the biggest State last fortnight. In a unanimous decision handed down by Chief Justice Hughes the Court held that Ross Shaw Sterling, Governor-reject of Texas, has exceeded his authority in declaring martial law in the gushing oil fields of East Texas and in jamming proration down the throats of oil operators at the point of his militia's bayonets. Although Governor Sterling's straight-from-the-hip action, together with that of his neighbor Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray of Oklahoma, skyrocketed crude oil prices from loc a barrel...
Officials of United Aircraft & Transport Corp. tried hard to conceal their excitement over an airplane being crated for shipment from East Hartford, Conn, last week. There was nothing extraordinary about the plane. It was a Vought Corsair of a year-old model, such as the U. S. Navy uses for observation, with interchangeable sea and land undercarriages. But its wings and fuselage bore the red-white-&-blue bull's eye insignia of the British Royal Air Force-hence the excitement. The British Air Ministry had bought the ship, presumably to test it as a sample of U. S. fighting...
...influenza which swiftly spread over the South and West (TIME, Dec. 12) by last week had filtered North and East. Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming estimated a quarter-million cases in the country, up from 65,000 three weeks ago. But the disease this year is mild, kills few victims...