Word: asia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statesman in the Near East, Kamal Ataturk, who overthrew the Turkish Sultanate and Caliphate, abolished the fez and is rapidly making the Turkish Republic a powerful and modern State, undertook to send the British royal party comfortably home overland. For this purpose the Turkish Presidential Train was transferred from Asia to Europe by ferrying it across the Bosporus. Quitting the $1,350,000 chartered royal yacht Nahlin and chuffing into Bulgaria, Edward VIII in a general way made for London, giving out that his whereabouts will include some further vacationing in Vienna...
...Asia's War Lord is that most repressed, overeducated and modest of monarchs, the Son of Heaven, His Majesty the Tenno or Emperor Hirohito of Japan. Last week to London from Tokyo flashed a stiff diplomatic note replying to that in which Britain last July 15 announced that she has "invoked the escalator clause" of the London Naval Treaty. In plain words this meant that because Adolf Hitler has torn up the Treaty of Versailles and is building Germany a forbidden navy, Stanley Baldwin has torn up the limitations on British naval building in the London Treaty. Unlike Herr...
...eleven years Dr. Heiser was Director of Public Health in the Philippines. Resigning to become Director for the East of the Rockefeller Foundation, he traveled through Europe and Asia, lived in Ethiopia, Japan, Siam, Australia, the South Sea Islands. Russia. His professional duties ranged from establishing a leper colony in the Philippines to conducting a colleague on a round-the-world tour in the interest of the fight against tuberculosis, from persuading Haile Selassie to cooperate in the struggle against yellow fever to leading a campaign against polished rice in the South Seas. Vigorous, informative, complacent, he discourses with equal...
...Finally the assassins, like the new Cabinet, sought "to assure clarification of the national policy, expansion of national defense armaments and stabilization of the peoples-in a word, to bring about the so-called Showa Restoration" under which the Japanese Empire is to grow until it includes all Eastern Asia...
When the moon eclipsed the sun last week and whipped a band of shadow across Asia (TIME, June 22), the foremost U. S. specialist on solar radiation, Astrophysicist Charles Greeley Abbot of the Smithsonian Institution, was in Rochester, N. Y. showing members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science a cartoon of himself. The sketch: big-mustached, ponderous Dr. Abbot sitting atop California's Mount Wilson with an "Abbot sun and moon measurer," while a little bear points to a Hollywood constellation of stars among which a chunky one represents Mae West...