Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate. The scene shifted to the Senate chamber. After perfunctorily passing a number of minor bills, the Senate recessed to await the President's action on the bills before him. The Senators gathered on the Republican (east) side of the chamber. Extra chairs were brought in. The galleries filled early. The Senators' private gallery, converted into an executive gallery, contained in its first row Colonel Coolidge, Mrs. Goodhue, Miss Skinner, John Coolidge. Mr. and Mrs. Stearns joined them. The Dawes children (Mrs. Malcolm Ericson, and Dana and Virginia, the adopted son and daughter) sat in the second row. Beman, Rufus...
...done and, contrary to precedent, all the remaining 24 were sworn in together. Then, with a sweeping gesture, Mr. Dawes ordered the Sergeant-at-Arms to carry out the order of the Senate for the inauguration of the President on the east front of the Capitol. The jammed galleries-all except the executive gallery-were instantly in a hurly burly as everyone rushed for the door. The floor of the Chamber emptied with almost as much confusion...
...Sergeant-at-Arms will carry out the order of the Senate for the inauguration of the President of the United States on the east front of the Capitol...
...great game of railroad chess. By the present deal, which was actually consummated months ago, the Rock Island Road gains a position of vantage in the Southwest carrying trade. Looking forward both to further competition, and to a day when the Southern Pacific will seek a road to the East, the Rock Island realizes that the "Black Belt" will be both an important factor in consolidating its freight system and a valuable power in any trade with the Pacific road...
Throughout the greater part of the country, states provide at public expense university training for young men and women qualified. But in the East, and especially in Massachusetts, the establishment of a state university or of a series of state colleges would undoubtedly set in motion a series of unique social and educational reactions. For one thing, it is certain that the more prosperous classes would continue to send their sons and daughters to the privately endowed colleges, while the less favored sections in the economic scale would gravitate toward the less expensive schools. A traditional separation might arise between...