Word: east
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bring his famed "Liberty law" to the official attention of the German Reichstag (TIME, Oct. 28) bristling Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, fiery nationalist, "Hearst of Germany," needed to obtain the votes of 10% of the German electorate. Last week, aided by a heavy vote from truculent Pomeranians and East Prussians, he squeaked through with...
...Minnesota, South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, was making money. Eight years later his holdings were estimated at $10,000,000 and he sold to Eastern buyers. Immediately he started another chain of utilities which in 1927 was appraised at $25,000,000 and which again Mr. Foshay sold to the East. His last chain of public utilities, operated in twelve states and five countries (Canada, Nicaragua, Honduras, Mexico, U. S.), included as subsidiaries three Twin City banks, owned in 30 states, such industries as wholesale and retail drugs, hotel companies, textile and shoe factories, rubber plants, flourmills, retail furniture...
...East: Columbia v, Pennsylvania at New York; Dartmouth v. Cornell at Hanover; Georgetown v. West Virginia at Washington; Harvard v. Holy Cross at Cambridge; N. Y. U. v. Missouri at New York; Syracuse v. Colgate at Syracuse; Army v. Dickinson at West Point; Navy v. Wake Forest at Annapolis; Williams v. Amherst at Williamstown; Yale v. Princeton at New Haven...
...Significance. Author Gordon's story is not typical, as would be the story of a black Southerner consciously striving Northward toward freedom. As a Westerner, blind at first to the burden of his own color, Author Gordon dreamed of the East where he would be a brown, pagan tycoon. He won the East and more as songster, not tycoon. Still pagan, he says: "There are only two things I worship in life, a dollar bill and a pretty girl...
...however, that will draw eighty thousand spectators into the Michigan stadium. To the alumni of the middle-west the team represents a vital connecting link between themselves and Harvard, and the Michigan adherents see the players in the light of emissaries from an ancient and famous college of the East to one of the out-standing universities of the middle-west...