Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tiresome indeed to a midwesterner is TIME'S placid assumption of July 11 that the Pacific coast and East will furnish the majority of the nation's track stars in the coming Olympic games...
Granted to TIME of that date: the implication that the coast is superior; the East, excellent in track material. Not granted: the implication by omission that the Midwest is lacking in such talent (notwithstanding that tiny blurb about the fast-fading Eddie Tolan of Michigan...
...regular cavalry was called out to capture a band of 150 Communists who had barricaded themselves in an inn after waylaying a truckload of Nazis. There were brawls in Berlin, Cologne, Munich. The situation was serious enough for both Chancellor von Papen and Adolf Hitler to go out to East Neudeck and confer earnestly with President Paul von Hindenburg. First reports were that martial law was about to be declared throughout Germany. Correspondents waited but no announcement appeared. Another story was generally accepted: the 90,000 blue-coated Schupos (Prussian state police) were about to be mustered under the control...
...Greenland last year, wanted to lead an Antarctic exploring party this year. But money was scarce and a U. S. airline wanted him to go back to Greenland, make further studies. Hence last week Explorer Watkins sailed from Copenhagen again, this time as chief of the Pan American Airways East Greenland Expedition. At the same time another party was en route from the U. S., the Michigan-Pan American Airways Greenland Expedition. Also last week Transamerican Airlines, which had begun tentative surveys of the northern air passage to Europe (TIME, April 25), surrendered to Pan American its active interest...
...Holden. In railroad circles this shift was not regarded as a complete sidetracking of slim, grizzled Paul Shoup, 58. He will move from San Francisco to Manhattan, devote his time to traffic, in which he is rated an expert. In late years Southern Pacific has lost much of its east & west traffic to Missouri Pacific where the lines compete, notably from El Paso to New Orleans. S. P. now controls St. Louis Southwestern ("The Cotton Belt") and can compete with the Van Sweringens' MOP directly into St. Louis. It will be Vice Chairman Shoup's job to follow...