Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...atmospheric patios, fakirs and camels. On hot days, Equatorial and Occidental African craftsmen were stinking convincingly last week as they fashioned their wares amid incipient squalor which seemed to make them more at home at the Exposition each day. Biggest was the civilized white crowd around a coal-black East African Negro cloth weaver who chants a weird native jazz in time with the squeaking of his loom pedals, the clanking of his bone shuttle...
Last week Rightist President Francisco Franco, after starting up again the offensive against Santander he had to stop to check the Leftists at Madrid, started another drive against Leftist positions 100 mi. east of Madrid and then turned to statecraft, forming a Cabinet of seven ministers, five of them generals. To Spaniards the name of General Martinez Anido as Minister of Interior, in charge of police, meant that any last vestige of possible compromise with Spain's Communists, Anarchists and Socialists had been deliberately wiped out by the Rightists. Martinez Anido was Vice-Premier under the late Spanish Dictator...
...time like a startled rabbit, is a Chinese with a potent Japanese in-law who became a "general" overnight by so styling himself, and by the grace of Japanese bayonets. He was ruling uneventfully last week in his strategic bailiwick which lies close to Peiping on the north and east, when suddenly his Peace Preservation Corps, every man a Chinese, started using their Japanese weapons against the Japanese garrison at General Yin's capital, Tungchow...
...unloading Japanese munitions and its Chinese officials blandly obliging, that General Kazuki did not bother to keep Tientsin heavily garrisoned, hurried almost all the Japanese troops he landed directly inland toward Peiping. Suddenly about 2 a. m. Chinese artillery secretly brought close to Tientsin started shelling the central and east railway stations used by the Japanese. Simultaneously Chinese snipers, evidently well organized on a citywide scale, began firing from the rooftops, hurling hand grenades. In the streets some Chinese soldiers attacked the Japanese. Others seized bargeloads of Japanese beer, burst into the offices of the Dairen Steamship Co. and stayed...
Dark, stocky David Colony was born 37 years ago in Lithuania, went to Chicago at 15 to enter school, got through eight grades in a year. He joined the Canadian Royal Fusiliers, saw service in the Near East, returned to the U. S. to study at the University of Pennsylvania, become an Episcopal minister. A radical, David Colony was assigned to teach Latin at swank Episcopal Academy and assist in a church at Rosemont, both on the Main Line and both cool to his notions. Transferred to more congenial, lower-class parishes in Philadelphia suburbs. Rector Colony established a barter...