Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First important set-back of the pilgrimage occurred when the veterans stepped off the Free Bridge in East St. Louis, Ill., and started to climb on an eastbound Baltimore & Ohio freight train. B. & O. officials, apprehensive lest the men wreck the train or kill themselves, ordered the train not to leave the yards. Then the marchers tried strategy. They deployed to Caseyville, eight miles away, waited until a string of 30 cars started to climb a steep grade there. Soaped rails and a cut air hose stalled the train, of which the marchers took informal possession. Ice melted from valuable...
These accounts of Mr. Wees's tribulations exasperated Professor Thomas Barbour, director of the Harvard Museum for which Mr. Wees ostensibly traveled. Professor Barbour had made zoological explorations in the East and West Indies, in Burma, China and Japan, in Central and South America. As a professional explorer he had no sympathy for the whimperings reported from Paraguay. On the other hand, as museum director he was mightily concerned with the public's reaction to a Harvard traveler's troubles. The sensationalized murder of Columbia University's Henrietta Schmerler when she bungled among the Apaches (TIME...
...Syracuse University crew: a 1¾mi. race with Cornell and Harvard, in 8 min. 48.4 sec. (a record); on the Charles River. Cornell had lost by a split-second to Yale the week before, was rated one of the East's two top crews. Cornell's and Harvard's frantic spurts were beaten back by Syracuse rowing an unhurried 34-to-the-minute from near the start to the finish...
Authorities in Hollywood have been eager to secure the rights to the Seabury-Hofstadter success and they have been in constant communication with authorities in the East. However before the play can go on the screen a suitable title must be selected for it. Whether it is to be called "Much Ado About Nothing", as Mayor Walker would have it or "Measure for Measure" as Mr. Seabury prefers depends upon the decision of a Mr. Roosevelt in Albany, to whom the matter has been referred for arbitration. Mr. Roosevelt, it has been learned, has left home, leaving a message that...
...result of the investigation carried on by University officials during the last few weeks, five of the eight students, who a week ago had their cases disposed of at the third district court in East Cambridge, were placed on probation for participating in the riot on April...