Word: northeasters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Illegal opposition, the President said, centred in the radically syndicalist East and reactionary Catholic Northeast. Certainly Catholic Navarra and the Basque Provinces seethed with discontent last week at the disestablishment of Mother Church (TIME, Oct. 26). In Barcelona, the President said, a movement was on foot to declare a "sudden general strike." Hereafter any strike begun without at least eight days notice will be suppressed by the Government as "revolutionary...
...last month by landing the mail in New York 28 hr. ahead of the steamer (TIME, Sept. 21). The Bremen's mail should be there 30 hr. ahead of time. The catapult on the Bremen's sundeck whirred; the plane shot into the sky 1,300 mi. northeast of Ambrose Lightship and flew on into rain, fog & headwind. At dark she alighted for a moment on Glace Bay Harbor to check position with a fishing boat; at 9 p. m. she put down on Sydney Harbor with ten minutes' fuel supply in her tanks; at midnight, refueled...
...Eight of the universities and colleges in the Northeast section of the country have requested me to announce a plan which they have worked out in response to the call on the colleges and schools in the United States made by Mr. Owen D. Young, Chairman of the President's Committee on Mobilization of Relief Resources. The colleges for which I am speaking are Yale, Brown, Holy Cross and Dartmouth in New England; and Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, and Pennsylvania in the Middle Atlantic States...
...centre of U. S. population as revealed by the 1930 enumeration. So proud and happy were the 5,077 citizens of Linton to know that an equal number of U. S. people lived in every direction from them that their Rotary Club planned to march the 2 9/10 mi. northeast to the Elkins farm and erect a marker. The knoll's location was given technically as 39° 3' 45" North, 87° 8' 6" West...
...Northeast Passage (Cont'd). Pilot Parker ("Shorty") Cramer and Radioman Oliver Pacquette had just started the motor of their Bellanca seaplane and were taxiing across the little harbor of Lerwick, Shetland Islands, when a messenger came running down the waterfront, waving a yellow paper. It was a warning of gales on the course east to Copenhagen, where the flyers were about to complete their survey of a subarctic air mail route from the U. S. (TIME, Aug. 17). Officials signaled frantically to Cramer & Pacquette but the former mistook the gestures for farewells, circled the town, flew away over...