Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meeting of the Empire Industries' Association: "I can hardly imagine that such an agreement is likely to revolutionize the American outlook on foreign affairs, so that she will be willing to do battle either for us or for the League of Nations, in Europe or the Far East...
...interesting compatriot named Chin Joo Hip in Butte, Mont. Chin Joo Hip, a wrinkled, cadaverous tongman with drooping white mustaches, received a call from the agent, who pretended to be the nephew of a rich Pacific Coast gangster. Presently they were fast friends. When the agent left to go East to buy opium for his "uncle," he had a warm letter of introduction to a tongsman named Jimmy Wong...
...which is close to Mr. Chamberlain) for printing rumors that "There exist and are known to Germany to exist in this country [Britain] a "certain number of people-not all of them obscure [Halifax & friends]- who would be prepared to welcome a German campaign of territorial expansion in the East [Austria, Czechoslovakia, Russia] if by that means Germany could for the time being be diverted from exploiting her nuisance value in other directions [colonies]. Accordingly it requires no great exercise of the imagination to conjecture that Hitler at his meeting with Viscount Halifax will test the ground for some such...
When a United Air Lines transcontinental airliner crashed last month on a 10,000 ft. peak of the Uinta Mts. 51 miles east of Salt Lake City, killing 19, a Bureau of Air Commerce Investigating Board was en route to the scene before rescuers reached the shattered ship (TIME, Oct. 25 et seq.). Last week, in record time, their verdict was reached. It did not specifically mention "pilot error," did little to dispel the belief of many airmen that Earl Woodgerd, a notably careful pilot, believed all was well and he was safe on his course up to the moment...
Manhattan's sludgy East Side, where fine river bank apartment houses rise self-consciously in the midst of four-story squalor, was the locale of Playwright Sidney Kingsley's melodrama, Dead...