Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which someone doesn't do something out of the ordinary. It is not the kings and statesmen that make the best news, but it is the common person of the street. The newsboy who stands at the entrance to A1 Smith's building, the peddlers of the lower East Side, the herd that wanders through the Aquarium daily, the captains of the river tugs, and the whistling traffic cop on his boat in Harlem are excellent sources for news stories...
...heard him, along with Owen D. Young, from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House. Arm-in-arm with Al Smith he marched out before Boss John H. ("For Success") McCooey's cheering cohorts at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. After lunching in the Bronx he ferried the East River for his one & only appearance on Long Island. The campaign's grand finale came Saturday night at Madison Square Garden. About the Governor, Boss John Francis Curry bunched all Tammany's local candidates. Judged by the applause of 21,000 Democrats, Al Smith was the evening...
...Although we are attempting to maintain a "splendid isolation" and play a lone hand, our whole policy is bringing us closer and closer to the League of Nations," the noted scholar of world affairs continued. "We are more likely to be dangerously involved in the Far East, if we continue to play this lone hand. As things are now, we enjoy the disadvantages of both being a member and a non-member of the League, and the advantages of neither. At present, we have one foot in and one foot out of the League. Although our consul at Geneva...
...both passenger and freight traffic N. Y. K. ranks ahead of O. S. K. By the agreement O. S. K. abandoned its trans-Pacific line, leaving N. Y. K. with a monopoly of the Japan-West Coast trade, while N. Y. K. withdrew its South African and East Coast South American services. Both still run ships to New York. Like Dollar Steamship Lines, O. S. K. maintains a round-the-world service, calling at South American and African ports. Most of its modern ships are fast freighters with accommodations for a limited number of passengers. Bidding for the passenger...
...hiding, fighting, running for their lives. When government troops finally broke up Kansas' civil war, Brown's little army scattered. But Kansas had given him a bigger, more dangerous idea. He disappeared; sometimes not even his family knew where he was. He visited prominent Abolitionists in the East, begged money for his desperate scheme. About the gist of it he kept a close mouth. His sons feared him, distrusted his mysterious plans, tried to shake free of him; but when the day came most of them were with...