Word: eastern
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Kress was better known as an old master of business, but in his business as in his collecting, he was essentially a talented copyist. He was born in eastern Pennsylvania just three weeks after the Battle of Gettysburg, where his uncle and namesake was killed. His Pennsylvania Dutch family was moderately well off, and Sam, the second of six children, became a country schoolteacher at 17. After seven years of frugally saving part of his $25-a-month salary, he bought a notions store in Nanticoke, Pa.; three years later he bought out a wholesaler in Wilkes-Barre and looked...
Seven years later he had seven branches in eastern Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, and his business was flourishing. Kress freely borrowed Woolworth's ideas, shrewdly located his first store in Memphis, where there was a ready market for low-cost merchandise-and no competition...
Very possibly the method of negotiation led to the policy change. Until this year, television programming had been done through the NCAA. Under the new ruling, while the national "game of the week" remained, regional broadcasts on two of five dates were allowed. The Eastern Collegiate Athletic Council arranged a regional schedule, which was bought by NBC, which had also bought the NCAA national package. But along with the NBC series, CBS also scheduled regional broadcasts, and this summer contacted the University...
...nudged close to the Communist Party line. As California commissioner of housing and immigration toward the last years of the Depression, McWilliams championed the collective farm, has been connected with half a dozen organizations since cited by the U.S. Attorney General as subversive, e.g., Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy. Last week, for a half-hearted apology, the Nation settled a libel suit against its former art critic, Clement Greenberg, who in a letter to the New Leader (TIME, April 2, 1951) had accused Nation Foreign Editor Alvarez del Vayo of "invariably [paralleling] Soviet propaganda...
Last spring Rossano was the top pitcher in the Greater Boston League, compiling a record of four victories and no defeats. He won his two games in the Eastern Intercollegiate League...