Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cared. His union was being run by his well-entrenched successors, old leaders who have no practical authority on the Pacific Coast and who flatly oppose the strike on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts. The new leaders, Harry Renton Bridges in the West and Joseph Curran in the East were fighting their own battles on their own lines, aided by alliances with longshoremen and other maritime workers with whom Andy Furuseth never stooped to parley...
Lawrence of Arabia has become in the Near East a legendary figure whose death in a motorcycle accident in England (TIME, May 27, 1935) is considered by many Moslem chiefs to be only a particularly clever British ruse. During the Ethiopian War, swarthy millions believed that Colonel Lawrence was alive in Addis Ababa advising Haile Selassie. Some think he is now in Western Ethiopia and will yet pluck victory for the Lion of Judah. Last week in London was auctioned off a packet of letters from Lawrence which were extracted from him by ingenious Ernest Thurtle, a Manhattan-born member...
...this demand China's Chang replied that, while it would be premature for China to grant such rights to Japan in all Chinese provinces, the Chinese Government would permit Japanese military co-operation in assisting it to exterminate Communism and banditry in the Chinese provinces of Manchuria, Jehol, East Hopei and Northern Chahar. The point of this uproarious Chinese joke could not entirely escape even glum Japanese Ambassador Shigeru Kawagoe upon whom it was sprung with the utmost Chinese decorum-for Mr. Kawagoe well knows that the areas specified are precisely those which Japanese soldiers already dominate and have...
...Vincent Sheean (Personal History), Walter Duranty (I Write As I Please), John Gunther (Inside Europe), George Slocombe (Tumult and the Shouting), Negley Parson (Way of a Transgressor), Miles Vaughn (Covering the Far East...
...Haven, Conn., Nov. 20--New Haven is seething with excitement tonight as enthusiastic football fans are pouring in to witness what is expected to be one of the most exciting games in the East this season. Both Yale and Harvard are confident of victory but consensus of opinion is that the Bulldogs will emerge victories in this, the fifty-fifth game of the two universities...