Word: east
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...cost the party $9,433,604. With Republican purses feeling as thin as anyone's, about half that sum is budgeted for this year's campaign. Treasurer Joseph Randolph Nutt consulted with Jeremiah Milbank, who lined up most of the party's "fat cats" in the East four years...
Hyde & Seedlings. In his acceptance speech Governor Roosevelt had specified reforestation as an "immediate means" of giving 1,000,000 men employment. Said he: "There are tens of millions of acres east of the Mississippi River alone in abandoned farms and cut-over land. . . . Economic foresight and immediate employment march hand in hand in the call for reforestation of these vast areas. . . . I'm doing it today in the State of New York and the Democratic party can do it successfully in the nation...
...Akron, world's largest airship, to join the hunt. The Akron flew to Bermuda and back without success, was preparing to make another flight when word came last week that the Curlew had been found by the Coast Guard cutter Marion. She was 80 mi. east of Nantucket, about 112 mi. further from Bermuda than at the start of the race. She was proceeding toward the Bronxonia Yacht Club at 3 m. p. h. The Marion escorted the Curlew into port at Newport...
This latest westward shift caused little surprise among U. S. Catholics. Though Western Catholic strength is not to be compared numerically with that of the East, its enrolled communicants are more numerous (save in Mormon Utah and Idaho) than those of any other sect. Once the Western Catholics were scattered pioneers. During the last decade the U. S. hierarchy has worked mightily in the West to build up schools, colleges, churches, hospitals. No State is now without a diocese of its own (last to get one was Nevada last year - TIME...
Insull Lop. Into bankruptcy last week went National Public Service Corp., intermediate holding company for the "Insull" properties in the East, chief subsidiary of National Electric Power. In receivership a fortnight ago, the company sought to have its five Manhattan banks (Chase National Bank, Central Hanover Bank, Manufacturers Trust, New York Trust, Chemical Bank) reach a standstill agreement on their loans of $20,000,000. When the receivers failed to accomplish this they resigned in a huff. The action means that the bulk of the Eastern part of the great utility system has been lopped away, will probably break...