Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME'S reviewer no reproof: He did not say Belbenoit wrote a bad book. Stranded in San Francisco last July, René Belbenoit wrote Explorer William LaVarre in Manhattan, who took him East, arranged for publication of his book. His first job was to pass on the accuracy of Devil's Island scenes in The Life of Emile Zola. If he gets a pardon from the French Government, as he hopes, ex-Convict Belbenoit plans to go back to France, return to the U. S. under the quota...
...deal has long been mooted whereby Poland may obtain an outlet to the sea at Memel, and give up to Germany her present corridor to the sea which divides East Prussia from the Reich. Rumors that the German Navy was steaming out last week to seize Memel quietly evaporated...
...Shansi to Chengchow, 300 miles to the southeast in Honan, Japanese forces finally secured a toehold on the Chinese-held south bank of the river at Szeshui, Honan Province, Chinese sources admitted last week. Main Japanese objective since their December capture of Nanking has been to sever the vital east-west lifeline of central China, the Lunghai Railway defended by the so-called "Chinese Hindenburg Line." The Lunghai Railway connects (via the Peking-Hankow line) Chiang Kai-shek's capital at Hankow with Sian, capital of Communist-held Shensi and source of Soviet supplies coming in from Outer Mongolia...
Star tank performers from all over the east will compete tonight in the first annual individual championships of the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League. 17 colleges will enter mermen in the events which begin this afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Harvard pool...
Best swimmers from all over the East will congregate in the Harvard pool Friday and Saturday for the invitation individual championships of the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League...