Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statement issued last night Farmer reviews the whole situation, and confirms the former decision. According to athletic officials, sports writers, and other close followers of boxing, if Farmer is correct then bouts at Harvard have been decided for years contrary to the rules, the Eastern Intercollegiates have been run illegally, many other big matches have been against the rule...
Bill Gray will have a fight on his hands when he meets Kennedy, Brown's lanky center. Gray last night was picked as center on the Boston Traveler's All-Eastern Intercollegiate League team...
...accordance with an ordinance passed by the City Council last autumn (TIME, Nov. 18), Chicago's clocks were officially advanced one hour March 1, thus putting the second city of the land on Eastern Standard Time. Pleased were La Salle Street financiers at their synchronization with Wall Street a thousand miles away. More pleased was Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick, whose morning Tribune thus gained an additional 60 minutes to gather news and readers. Thoroughly displeased was Publisher William Franklin Knox, whose afternoon Daily News had to postpone its huge market edition one hour...
...Germany. Launching swift efforts to strengthen old French alliances against the Reich and forge new ones, venerable but vivacious Louis Barthou had a glorious time dashing from capital to capital. In Geneva he sat down with Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff and negotiated the terms of an Eastern Pact of Mutual Assistance between France and Russia to which Germany and Poland were invited to adhere (TIME, Sept. 24, 1934) The pact amounted to an agreement that, if any Eastern European State burst out of its frontiers, the others would join in squelching it. Adolf Hitler refused to have anything...
Whether Insomniac Bajoria had taken any of the Western World's recognized sedatives, the Eastern World as represented by Calcutta reporters seemed not in the least curious. They reported that cures proffered by "astrologers, hypnotists and occultists" have been unavailing...