Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March of Time" goes off the air my radio set goes out of the window with a bang that will be heard from Madison, Wis., to the east end of New York's 42nd Street...
...Medical Society of the County of New York, potent in the East, and touchy, bellowed "disbelief and disapproval...
...century ago James Brooke left home, stocked a vessel with arms, took up piracy. Off the coast of Sarawak, rich province in northern Borneo, 800 mi. due east of Singapore, he stopped to rescue a beleaguered Sultan. The first thing the Sultan knew James Brooke was Raja of Sarawak. When Queen Victoria heard about his feat she knighted him. Present Raja, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, is his grand-nephew...
...survey showed vacancies in Manhattan apartments (including tenements) have increased from 7.41% in 1927 to 14.93% in 1932. Heaviest vacancy percentage was 26.38% in the lower East Side and the lowest was Park Avenue's 7.68%. Vacancies in the tenement district do not indicate an oversupply of rooms but rather that Depression has caused families to take fewer rooms, in many cases to share their overcrowded quarters with other families...
About 50 years ago one Abraham Schlesinger, importing & exporting merchant, started a private banking firm on Manhattan's lower East Side. The firm was called A. Schlesinger & Son. Son was named Samuel. Unnamed in the firm was Son Isidore, then in short pants. When Isidore grew into long pants and had a few dollars in their pockets he bought a steerage ticket for England and slipped away to look for cannibals. Eventually he reached Johannesburg, spent several years grubbing for his board & bed. Finally he hit upon the bright idea of selling land on the installment plan, formed African...