Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President appointed Frederick C.Hicks* to be Alien Property Custodian. Last fall, he managed the Republican Campaign in the East with such success that Charles D. Hilles, a Republican super-chieftain, advised the President (TIME, Apr. 13) to give him the high responsibility of managing the confiscated property of onetime enemies of the U. S., succeeding Colonel Thomas Miller...
...handsome young man was an officer in the Imperial German Navy when war broke out. He was Count Alfred Niezyzhowski, known to the smarter Berlin set as "Al" or "Nizzy." He was not really a "Bosch,"but a fine gentleman from the Polish part of East Prussia; and his uncle, Baron Hengelmuller, Austrian Ambassador to the U. S., had long been the popular dean of the diplomatic corps at Washington...
...interview described as "unfortunate," the General let his own voice ring out. He said that, on the east, Poland has an enemy (Russia); on the west, Poland has an enemy (Germany); and on the north, Poland has an enemy (East Prussia, isolated German province). He pointed out that, from the last two places, Germany could launch an attack upon the Polish corridor (narrow strip of intervening territory leading to the sea), nip it off like a stalk of asparagus in the jaws of a crocodile...
...hold of a liner emerged two Russian Jews. Mr. and Mrs. Baline, landed in Manhattan, bearing with them a cloth-wrapped bundle, now Irving Berlin. At five, the child hawked papers in the Bowery. One day, a crane knocked him into the East River. When he was rescued, the ambulance surgeon found, still clutched in the minute Baline hand, five coppers, his day's takings...
...east of the show, "Laugh It Off", will leave at 12 o'clock today on a trip which will include six performances. Sixty members of the Glee Club will leave tomorrow morning for a tour which will end in New York City on Sunday, evening, April 26. The spring trip of the Instrumental Clubs will carry them as far South as Hot Springs. Va., in a series of six concerts ending April 25 at White Sulphur Springs...