Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frank Hague of Jersey City, field marshal for the Smith forces. Just before the Roosevelt men met to discuss the rules, the mimeograph at Smith headquarters reeled out Hague's blast. Excerpts: "Governor Roosevelt, if nominated, has no chance of winning in November. He cannot carry a single State east of the Mississippi. . . . The Democratic party has a golden opportunity but for the party to select the weakest man cannot bring success. Governor Roosevelt has utterly failed in his last two attempts to sell himself to the people. There is a wealth of material before the convention. . . . Why consider...
...went to the printers. Last week the examining proctors at schools and examining centres all over the world handed out papers prepared in December 1930. They did it simultaneously every day, allowing for differences in time, to thwart shrewd youngsters who might receive news of examinations by telegraph from East to West. There is no "honor system," for the Board realizes that while a student may be honest in loyalty to his own institution and his own kind, he may not honor a distant nebulous Board whose emissaries are strangers...
...Durham bull's neck. Why not name your product Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco and adopt the whole bull as a trade-mark?" Tobaccoman Green immediately had a bull painted on sheet iron, mounted in front of his factory. The bull was heavy, clumsy, stolid and faced toward the east. After Founder Green died and Bull Durham tobacco was made by his more aggressive partner William T. Blackwell, the trade-mark bull became lighter, more graceful. A Liberty Bell was suspended from his neck by the U. S. flag and he faced west toward the land of unlimited resources. When...
First important new fact which the investigators found was that many Eastern coastal cases diagnosed as typhus were really Rocky Mountain spotted fever, never before suspected east of the Mississippi (TIME, March...
...crude oil by 25¢ per bbl. if production for the State is kept down to 476,700 bbl. a day against the figure of 486,800 bbl. the week the offer was made. Oilmen expected independents would meet the terms, less California gasoline would be shipped to the East, all gasoline prices would benefit. Offer for Richfield. James A. Talbot, onetime chairman of California's Richfield Oil Co., and two other former high executives of the company last week spent their fifth week in jail, serving for grand theft. Had they picked up a paper they might have read that...