Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Slavery. The temporary slavery commission reported that slavery is practically wiped out except in the Mohammedan countries of the East. A peonage system of approaching it exiss in parts of Latin America. Abyssinia is the Christian country where it is still practiced, but progress has been made there towards its abolition. Slave raiding is rare except on the borders of the Sahara Desert. In Arabia many girls making pilgrimages from the East are seized and enslaved...
...flee, leaving the Tsoul tribe alone to oppose the French. The Tsouls went over to the Riffs when the French retreated in July. Last week with the situation reversed they "turned faithful" again and came in asking mercy to the French strongholds. The Branes, another stronger tribe to the east, held out but were reported weakening...
...Gilkey, Thomas E. Donnelly, Robert L. Scott and Dr. Frank Billings, over the baffling question of Dr. Burton's successor. Every week they met, soon eliminating as unsuitable all prospects on the home campus, casting their eyes afield now upon this capable small-college administrator in the East, now upon that efficient personality in a History Department of the Far West; or again, upon an editor, reputed as sagacious as he was vigorous; upon a divine, a barrister, a minor college official whose good works had shewn forth his high qualities...
...cardinal economic tenets. Gasoline refiners and distributors have attempted to promote "price-stability," and at rates quite profitable to themselves. But out in California many companies were growing tired of carrying vast stocks of crude oil. When the "stabilizers" got the price of gasoline up to high levels-the east, the California independents accordingly refined their oil, shipped the gasoline cheaply through Panama, and started a lively price-war in the Atlantic seaboard states. The Standard Oil companies were forced to meet the cuts by lowering their own tank wagon prices. Thus "price stabilization's" apple cart has been...
...many of the gangsters could place Von Elm. Until last year his activities in the East had been infrequent and unobtrusive. But Robert Tyre Jones Jr. they remembered well indeed, the chubby Buster Brown of 17 from Atlanta, Ga., who qualified so brilliantly in the amateur championship of 1919 at Oakmont and blazed through his matches to the very final. Two former champions had sickened at that fell onslaught, tall Bob Gardner of Chicago and seasoned Walter Fownes of the home club, and only with difficulty did ponderous Dave Herron at last fix a damper on the ardent cherub...