Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Japanese last week still forbidding foreign correspondents to go to captured Nanking (TIME, Dec. 20, et seq.), the Chicago Daily News received last week one of the best eyewitness accounts thus far of the "Nanking atrocities" from its Far East Ace Reporter A. T. Steele...
...Weakening or withdrawal by the Fatherland from the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo "Axis," the Army being convinced that Italy will desert Germany in the next war as she did in 1915, and that in the Far East it is clearly to Germany's interest to build friendly relations and trade with China...
...spring of 1936 the Travelers' Insurance Co. in St. Louis, Mo. received an agitated telephone call from one John Womack. His voice trembling, Mr. Womack related that his wife, Bertha Mae, had been sideswiped by a dairy truck in East St. Louis, knocked to the pavement where she gave premature birth to a dead child. Mr. Womack added that he would settle his claim immediately for $2,000. Preferring to investigate, a company representative found plump Bertha Mae bedded in a local hospital. Physicians decided she had given birth to a child but could discover no evidence of external...
...said to be circling Manager Rickenbacker's house in Bronxville, N. Y. When Pilot Jones at last picked up a beacon, one & all cursed with relief, identified it from its flash as the one at New Britain, Conn., 82 miles north of Newark, directed Jones to the nearby East Hartford Airport...
...FATE OF THE GROSVENOR-Jonathan Lee-Covid-Friede ($2.75). A good story, lamely told, describing the wreck in 1782 of an Indiaman off the east coast of Africa, the harrowing 117-day march in which eight of the 100-odd survivors fought their way to the Cape...