Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nevertheless, the New York Herald Tribune, leading G. O. P. organ in the East, published a distinctly emotional editorial called "A Nationwide Mandate," in which it told that 30 of 42 Republican National Committeemen from whom it had elicited expressions refused to believe that President Coolidge would ignore a party call. Governor Fuller of Massachusetts led a New England chorus of even stronger effect: Calvin Coolidge would be wanted again and he would have to respond. The President's closest political friend of all, Chairman William M. Butler of the Republican National Committee, steadfastly refused to be convinced that...
Draft or no draft, Republicans felt that the President's announcement would greatly aid the party in resolving a major situation which an Iowa newspaper described as follows: "The Republican East is in the saddle and the Republican West is in arms...
...until 1919 that Mr. Hearst hanged himself politically. Then his New York newspapers, snarling with headlines and cruel cartoons, accused Alfred E. Smith, Governor of the state, with "killing East Side babies." The city milk supply was bad (everybody agreed to that) and babies were suffering. But a onetime Republican Legislature had taken power to regulate the problem out of the Governor's hands. Governor Smith knew this, and Mr. Hearst must have known it. Governor Smith had a genuine love for East Side babies, of which he once was one, and never forgave the publisher...
...infinitely more valuable artistic qualities had been coveted, it must have been the work of highly skilled international crooks, for disposition of Metropolitan art treasures is of even greater difficulty than their theft. A fortunate twist was given the case, when two frames were found in two lower East Side pawnshops, where they had been deposited in exchange for $75 each. The other four are still missing, as are, unfortunately, the portraits themselves...
...requires 17 days to ship oil from U. S. ports to those near East communities which Vacuum Oil and Standard of N. Y. intend to supply with the oil they buy from Russia...