Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Approximately 100 colleges and universities in East, South, and Middle West have been invited to send delegates to the meeting which will be held Dec. 27 at International House. An intercollegiate committee to aid refugee students will be organized...
...grateful for myself and for a great many future Presidents," said Franklin Roosevelt as he accepted from Maker Theodore Steinway a new mahogany piano with legs carved like eagles to replace the gold monstrosity that has stood in the East Room since...
...Lithuania, her statesmen feverishly tried to make friends with the Reich to save what pieces there were left to save. Memel, a district of 1.099 square miles on the Baltic, formerly part of East Prussia, was detached from Germany by the Treaty of Versailles, was taken by Lithuania in 1923. The port of Memel, with 38.545 inhabitants, contains iron foundries, ship-building yards, breweries, chemical plants. Because it is the country's only developed outlet to the sea, its formal appropriation by Germany would be almost irreparable to Lithuania. But Lithuania had some friends left, however ineffective. British Prime...
...Mexico is a colony of modern artists little known in the East, outside of New York. The painters live in or around Santa Fe and are called the Santa Fe group. One of the foremost is Cady Wells, whose watercolors are now on exhibit in the Fogg Museum...
...biggest wastepaper converters in the East, Clifton is a family-owned business. The family is the Desiderios, father and seven sons. Frank Desiderio, a strapping, grey-haired Italian, arrived in the U. S. in 1904, penniless, unemployed, unable to speak English. On borrowed money he bought a pushcart, tramped Newark's streets collecting wastepaper. In two years he had a horse and wagon, traded them for a two-cylinder Autocar in 1918. By 1926 the Desiderios owned a 100-truck fleet. When the old Clifton firm went bankrupt six years ago, they turned up with a batch of uncollected...