Word: shores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jinx perversely continued to cling to the coattails of Col. Abraham Lazard ("Abe") Shushan of New Orleans and his airport last week. Week before, during the Mardi Gras weekend, the new $4,000,000 field on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain was to have been dedicated with a four-day air meet. The airport, far superior to any other field in the U. S., had been built by the Orleans Levee Board of which Col. Shushan, good friend of Senator Huey Long, is president. In gratitude for his loyalty Senator Long permitted the new field to be named...
...admirer of Lenin (whom he never succeeded in interviewing), Duranty takes the un-Russian view that Lenin sometimes made mistakes. The NEP (New Economic Policy), which temporarily allowed private capitalist enterprise to shore up tottering Communist industry, was made necessary, says Duranty, by Lenin's misreading of world events in 1917. Lenin counted on the World War ending in a stalemate, believed the World Revolution would then spread everywhere. Instead, the U. S. tipped the scales, Germany was beaten and Russia became the vulnerable enemy of all Europe. Duranty reminds his readers of Lenin's frank admission...
...League compel the Bruins to compensate Bailey, beyond the $6,700 which he received from a benefit game in Boston. The League governors compromised by ordering another benefit game, between the Toronto club and an all-star team made up of players from the other clubs. 2) Eddie Shore, Boston's crack defense man who was suspended for spilling Bailey, returned to the ice against the Rangers in Manhattan. His team had slipped into last place largely because of his absence. Heartened by sympathetic cheers from a gallery which nearly always booed him, Shore recovered his nerve, played...
...What church has a right to all the whales washed up on the lower west shore of Manhattan Island...
...Stelzle's argument was answered by Lawson Purdy, tax expert and comptroller of rich old Trinity, which by its 200-year old charter not only possesses valuable (and taxable) business and tenement properties but also has a right to all whales washed up on the lower West shore of Manhattan Island. Mr. Purdy argued that if church property were taxed its value would at once shrink because assessment is based upon market value. The market value of St. Patrick's Cathedral would be nothing because no one could afford it. Furthermore, said Mr. Purdy, the value of such...