Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...courts the struggle continues. Nearly two score Progressives were convicted in a Federal court in Springfield, Ill. of conspiracy to interfere with the mails and interstate commerce by dynamiting trains (TIME, Dec. 27). Last week another case originating on that dark and bloody ground was decided in East St. Louis, Ill. by Federal District Judge Fred L. Wham. In a damage suit brought against the Progressive Miners by United Electric Coal Co. for losses sustained from a three-year shutdown of its Red Ray mine, Judge Wham whammed down an award of $117,000. Seven Progressive locals and 66 union...
...this was the Big Secret of the Imperial Conference, Imperial Headquarters proceeded to proclaim Japan's "immutable policy" to "eradicate Chinese Nationalism" so that the Chinese will no longer hate Japan's imperialistic aims in Asia. To this it added. "Japan's responsibility for peace in East Asia is even heavier than before. . . . The true intention of Japan . . ." is to continue "the policy adopted by the Japanese Government of respecting the territorial integrity and sovereignty of China as well as the rights and interests of other powers in China...
...East it is Temple...
...years ago, when Sinclair Lewis published It Can't Happen Here, a miscellaneous group of left-wing writers hailed that anti-Fascist novel with a dinner in a small Italian restaurant on Manhattan's East Side. There in an upstairs room Sinclair Lewis sat at the head of a long table facing a row of radical poets, proletarian novelists and dramatists, defenders of civil liberties, pamphleteers, listening uncomfortably to their speeches that welcomed him to their ranks. Said New Masses Editor Granville Hicks: "When I read Work of Art I wondered-is Red Lewis with us or against...
...Star is Born," with all those frightful orange and blue sunsets. After much experimenting, for which his color director, William A. Wellman, deserves great credit, he has produced in "Nothing Sacred" the most true-to-life film yet to appear. When Miss Lombard is draged out of the East River, she looks wet. When we see her with an ice-pack the morning after, our heart goes out to her. We liked her when her hair was gray and her face was gray and her clothes were gray; but we like her better...