Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Inspecting the East for the first time, Cinemoppet Shirley Temple, 9, in a blue shirred frock and red hair-ribbon called on President Roosevelt squired by her father & mother, Mr. & Mrs. George Temple. The conversation ran on lamb chops, a tooth Miss Temple had lately lost, a salmon she had caught in Vancouver. Leaving the White House she exhibited her autograph book, which she considered "a very important book now." Inscribed across one whole page was: "To Shirley, from her old friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...zero hour the sit-downers were still sitting. Police threw tear gas bombs into the two buildings, charged with swinging batons, swung their fists, used stinging riding whips on squatters who showed fight. As the rabble army fled toward Vancouver's poor but sympathetic East End, they picked up post office inkwells and pieces of metalwork, hurled them at department-store windows. Damage was estimated at $50,000, 40 sit-downers and police had to be hospitalized. Among the most seriously hurt was a former Communist leader, Steve Brodie, now styled as secretary of the Single Unemployed Protective Association...
Hendrik August Wilhelm Deterding, third son of a Dutch sailor, went into an Amsterdam bank at the age of 16 and fell in love with figures, quit after six years because banking was too slow a way up in the world. He went to the East Indies, worked for the Netherlands Trading Society in Deli, Medan and Penang, learned how to make money for the Society, and quit to make money for himself. His next job was with a man named J. B. A. Kessler, who was head of a small concern with a large name, which was: The Royal...
...time Kessler died, in 1900, Royal Dutch was a respectable little company, with wells all over the Dutch East Indies and markets throughout the East. And Deterding, who succeeded Kessler as managing director, was dreaming of fighting Rockefeller. By 1903, backed by the Rothschilds, he set out to buck Standard Oil. Deterding lost more than $4,000,000, but fought Standard to a standstill (in spite of the free lamps Standard gave away) and won a market in China. From then until the War he was busy grabbing up new properties in Mexico, Venezuela and California...
...last and most legendary of the White Russian counter-revolutionists rounded up by the Soviet Government was Baron Roman Fedorovich Ungern-Sternberg, diminutive, monstrously capricious, brilliant commander of the East Asiatic Cossack Division, who in his last stand in Outer Mongolia beat the best the Red Army sent against him, went down to defeat only when his own officers rebelled against his sadistic despotism...