Word: asia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William Cameron Forbes, bald, aristocratic Bostonian, has held two outstanding positions in Statecraft. He was Governor General of the Philippines, chief U. S. executive in the vast Pacific, under President Taft. He is now Ambassador to Japan, only U. S. Ambassador in all Asia...
...Concord is the famed Rumford Press, printers of more than a score of national magazines, among them: Asia, Spur, Forum, Harper's, Polo, Atlantic Monthly, Yachting, Sportsman, House Beautiful...
Four motion-picture films prepared by, or in the possession of, the University Film Foundation will be released during the coming month. The first of these, a film entitled "Grass," taken in the wilderness of central Asia, will be shown at the Harvard Union on Tuesday, February 10, at 8 o'clock in the evening...
...Gleaming new electric interurban cars at Baku (in Asia) entering an enormous new railway station in Eurasian style (see map sketch). . . . Prosperity in the place where Red oil comes from. . . . Stalin's mother at Tiflis (TIME, Dec. 8). . . . Chiaturi, which produces the manganese used in one U. S. auto out of every...
...Obviously, some simple organization soon became necessary in view of the growing number of converts. This assumed different forms in different centres, as for instance, Presbyterian [elders] at Rome, Episcopalian [overseers, supervisors] in some parts of Asia and Congregational in other localities. It is also a matter of history that as the centuries rolled on the Episcopalian form of government ultimately superseded all others until the Reformation...