Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another factor was the recent and rapid Democratic upsurge in eastern Pennsylvania. In 1951 the Democrats won the Philadelphia mayoralty, interrupting 67 years of Republican rule at City Hall. In 1952 Adlai Stevenson took the city by 162,000 votes-an election freak that bewildered the experts and bothered the Republican National Committee. It should have jogged the Republicans of Pennsylvania out of their complacency, but it didn...
...Leader, at 67, is a prosperous breeder of Black Angus cattle and prize poultry. "Leader Leghorns'' are justly famed in eastern Pennsylvania: the two top egg-laying hens at the Harrisburg state egg-laying contest in 1953 and 1954 came from the lush, 500-acre Leader Farms, and Leader Angus cattle have been Grand Champions in the last four Reading fairs. Like most Yorkmen, Guy Leader learned his trade early. "It became my job to assist my mother with her flock of chickens,'' he recalls, "caring for setting hens, making coops from store boxes...
Responding to public appeal, Congress started the trouble when it posted a bill of strategic goods which businessmen could not sell to Eastern Europe and Red China. Since the harshest complaints were leveled at the Chinese Communists, the number of items embargoed for them outnumbered the list for the satellite countries. The Eastern Europe gimmick is to buy strategic materials in the West and freight them to the Chinese at top prices. Each day free world generators, machine tools, and petroleum equipment are raced across the Trans-Siberian railroad to the East, all via the profit making of the middle...
...Korean and Indochina wars doesn't justify equalizing the restriction lists, the continued injury to America's overall policy does. The inequality of the trading requirements has a disadvantage greater than the profitable ventures of the shrewd dealers behind the Curtain. It also makes Communist China more dependent on Eastern Europe for necessary goods. Until Congress can decide on a consistent program, the Kremlin will continue to weld Eastern Europe to Red China with economic solder provided by the United States...
...Crimson's tight defense, guard Bill Melgs, was among 11 players nominated by the Eastern intercollegiate Football Association as "unsung heroes" of last Saturday's games. His teammate, tackle Orville Tice, was on the E.I.F.A. list earlier in the season for his performance against Dartmouth...