Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Already wounded by Japanese airmen and in the hospital at Shanghai was British Ambassador Knatchbull-Hugessen (TIME, Sept. 27), but British Charge d'Affaires R. G. Howe decided to stick at his post in Nanking. This left U. S. Ambassador Nelson T. Johnson, a longtime Far East veteran who has made tramps and treks in bandit-infested Provinces "just for fun," staring at the standing orders which the U. S. Embassy, Legation and Consulate has recently received under the New Deal. These orders force the ranking U. S. official on the spot to decide what in his judgment constitutes...
...Today he has nearly 4,600 specimens in the 175 wooded acres of his zoo, rated one of the leading parks in the U. S., and within a fortnight he expects to have a 30% increase in his family. For last January peregrinating Director Mann set out for the East Indies, sponsored by the Smithsonian and the National Geographic Society. Among collectors' items he particularly hoped to pick up were some giraffes for the delight of younger zoo customers, and a husband for Susie, his orangutan. While he was gone the WPA promised to rebuild and enlarge...
...white salon at 12 Avenue Matignon where he does a thriving business, sketching his designs himself and personally directing fitters as they drape dresses on live models. His new Manhattan establishment is identical in style and layout with his Paris shop. An old five-story private house at 32 East 67th Street, with a new, shining, white façade and MARCEL ROCHAS in deep blue over the lintel, it sits in a row of old brownstone apartments, like a blue-eyed blonde on a bench with pickaninnies. Inside is a big desk which no one, however pompous, may pass...
This summer it was moved about a hundred feet east of its old location, no small journey for a hundred year old, house, and turned at right angels to face Massachusetts Avenue...
Under the new system the offender will not be tagged but will receive a summons from East Cambridge Court. If he fails to appear his license may be suspended. The penalty is merely a warning the first time with increasing dollar fines for each additional offense. The system has been used in Boston for some time. Mount Auburn Street will probably be hardest hit in the present drive...