Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late Jackson Barnett was a simple-minded Creek who got 160 acres in Eastern Oklahoma from the Government in Benjamin Harrison's time and lived to see his land produce 12,000 bbls. of oil a day. So dim-witted that he used to parrot back "Hello. Jack" when he was addressed, Indian Barnett had a guardian to invest his $60,000 monthly income. He lived on $50 a month until Anna Laura Lowe, a white widow, entered his life, began fighting with the Government over his money...
...unmatched by any other 20th Century ruler in material, social, educational accomplishments. Realizing that national prestige paid dividends. President Atatürk, with the driving force of a dictator, built up a modern, mechanized army. That made Turkey sought after by Germany, France and England, as a powerful Near Eastern ally. His Government doubled the country's railroad mileage, started sugar and textile factories, coal and iron industries to make Turkey more self-sufficient. He ordered electrification and reforestation programs and began to build a merchant marine. His policy of "Turkey for the Turks'' largely eliminated...
...southern flight, the geese made news again that thinned out into another mystery: Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Eskimos and Indians reported that the geese had almost no young birds with them, although about 50% of the southbound flocks are usually goslings. Possible explanation: The nestlings were struck by an eastern Arctic storm which only the older birds were able to escape...
PHILADELPHIA (U.P.)--Temple University students have started a campus newsreel, to be issued monthly and believed the first of its kind at an eastern college...
...February 11, Pennsylvania; February 13, Harvard Water Carnival; February 14, New England Championships at the Boston Y.; February 15, Providence Boys Club; February 18, Navy at Annapolis; February 25, Columbia at New York; March 1, Dartmouth; March 4, Princeton at Princeton; March 11, Yale; March 17 and 18, Eastern Intercollegiate League Championships at New Haven, and March 24 and 25, National Intercollegiate championships at Ann Arbor, Michigan...