Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bespectacled, soft-spoken Secretary-Treasurer Herbert Benjamin. 37. Two-and-a-half years ago Socialist Lasser's original Alliance and Herbert Benjamin's Communist Unemployment Councils submerged their differences, merged with lesser organizations into the present Alliance. The membership (now claimed 400,000. mostly in Eastern, Midwestern and Pacific Coast cities) continually shifts as clients go on & off relief. The leadership is also in constant flux, at the moment includes such active but seldom mentioned figures as John Spain of New Jersey, Lee Morgan of Ohio, Al Brockway of Washington. Dependent for dues on citizens who have...
Charles Douglas Dawe, Lansing, Michigan--Eastern High School...
...Giants (Warner Bros.), like Drums (see below), takes color completely in its stride. And its Paul Bunyanesque stride is suitable to Peter B. Kyne's famed tale of lumberjacking and land grabbing in California's redwood forests. Charles Bickford, as head of a crooked gang of Eastern lumber barons, is determined to whittle the world's oldest stand of timber down to shingle slabs. Wayne Morris, an idealistic young landowner, is committed to preserving his mortgaged title to acreage that the gang needs to complete its shocking plan. The changing sympathies of Claire Trevor, a blonde croupi...
Last week, Newark Airport suddenly found itself all spruced up with apparently no place to go. For, with the $23,000,000, 550-acre North Beach project half completed, energetic Fiorello LaGuardia had won commitments from aviation's big five-Pan American Airways, American. United, Eastern Air Lines and Transcontinental & Western Air-that they would begin using the new field when it is opened officially next April 30. Pan American, which does not use Newark, planned to move in from its own base ten miles away at Port Washington. The others cagily announced they would use both North Beach...
Griped Newark's greying Mayor Ellenstein over the Little Flower's coup: "Without the first consideration for the lives of passengers and pilots, Mayor LaGuardia seems determined to resort to every stratagem to have New York designated as the official Eastern airway terminal...