Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...naturally anxious that his claims as a candidate for President shall not be forgotten. So on his first return to the U. S. his supporters found it incumbent upon them to keep him in the public eye. His trip from Manila to the White House (to report on Far Eastern affairs) was therefore designed on the order of a Roman triumph...
Answer came from Captain Edward Vernon ("Eddie") Rickenbacker, general manager of Eastern Air Lines, famed U. S. World War "Ace of Aces."* Last week Captain Rickenbacker concluded a series of unpaid articles for Hearstpapers. Excerpts...
...book trade, when a novel that sold 5,000 copies could get on best-seller lists, Anthony Adverse became "the fastest selling book in American history," with sales reaching 235.000 copies in six months, 450,000 in one year. Author Hervey Allen bought a farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland with part of his proceeds, started work on a historical novel about upstate New York, got 50,000 letters about his big romance. Anthony Adverse, still going strong, has been translated into ten languages, sold to the movies, with its sales reaching a high of 900,000 copies...
...interview with the Cornell Daily Sun, Lynah, who is President of the Eastern Intercollegiate Association, said that the Directors' principal objection to the proposed conference is that "it restricts schedule making to an undesirable extent...
This year the question was again brought to light when the New York Herald Tribune related last Sunday that representatives of the CRIMSON at a meeting of undergraduate dailies from eastern universities, had blocked The Daily Dartmouth's plan to start such a conference...