Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decision to partition Palestine (TIME, July 12), met at No. 10 Downing Street last week in worried session over what might be the attitude of Benito Mussolini. Would Il Duce use his super-power radio station at Bari, which daily broadcasts in Arabic to the natives of the Near East, as an engine of propaganda to stir up the tribes and wreck partition? Would Bari even broadcast in Hebrew to stir up the Jews? During the Ethiopian crisis, Britain learned to her cost how much trouble the Bari station can stir up among her natives, and of late Bari...
...either had not withdrawn or anyhow were on the disputed islands again within 48 hours, was in no mood to continue meek and conciliatory when news arrived of a bloody Japanese-Soviet clash in the Vinokurka Hills. This affray was on the Soviet-Siberian frontier nearly 1,000 miles east of the disputed Amur River islands. Comrade Litvinoff promptly handed a sharp warning to Ambassador Shigemitsu: "Soviet frontier troops have firm orders in no case to allow Japanese and Manchurian troops to cross Soviet frontiers, and upon their appearance on Soviet territory to drive them out with all means...
...their columns with reports of mutinous Red Army ferment in Siberia, announced that "several hundred Red Army officers and soldiers" had been overpowered by the secret police after "resisting arrest" in Vladivostok and were being shipped toward Moscow as prisoners on two trains. "The rest of the Soviet Far East army, as a result of these arrests, has been thrown into utter confusion!" crowed the Tokyo Nichi Nichi...
George Gershwin had just been born when his parents moved from Brooklyn to Manhattan's overcrowded Lower East Side. The earliest sounds young Gershwin heard were the clank of dishes in his father's restaurant, the clatter of the Second Avenue El, the confusion and bustle of the ghetto. At 10, the aggressive, wild-haired little boy was the best rollerskater in the block. Even then he would spend his pennies in a Grand Street arcade listening to a mechanical piano hammer out Rubinstein's Melody in F. He was not much older when Mother Gershwin bought...
...last Presidential campaign because he is an uncle of Alfred Mossman Landon. Young James went to Ohio State, studied chemistry and geology, taught swimming, worked in the oil fields of Texas, California, Pennsylvania. New York, South America. In Michigan he saw some experiments with acid, decided to move east and hang out his own shingle as a well doctor...