Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sewanna, the best yachtsman the nation ever had for President put out from Pulpit Harbor, Me. early last week with Sons James, John and Franklin Jr. for shipmates, a crew of two. "I haven't the faintest idea where I'm going, except to work to the east'ard," he told newshawks before casting off. "I'm just going to loaf and have a good time...
Chairman Hamilton charged that a Democratic whispering campaign against both him and Governor Landon had been in progress for three weeks. In the East Jews were being told that he and the Governor were anti-Semites. In the West anti-Semites were being told that the Governor's middle name, Mossman, proved his Jewish descent...
...Drums will be piled on a platform which will have been erected in the centre of the parade. The new colors will be laid against the drums and the clergy will process out and take post on the west side of the platform, facing east. The King, who in the meanwhile will have dismounted, will also move out to the platform. . . . The consecration service (which will be amplified) will then proceed, after which His Majesty will address the troops. . . . His Majesty will then ride back to Buckingham Palace at the head of the troops who will march in column...
...maintain a dictatorship based on the personality of the late great Marshal Josef Pilsudski. Excuse for the dictatorship is Poland's nightmare situation in European politics. Potent Germany on the west wants to take a slice of Poland's territory; potent Soviet Russia on the east wants to overthrow Poland's economic system. Poland has a President and a Premier. But last week the Premier. Felicjan Slawoj-Skladkowski, proclaimed that henceforth Poland's No. 2 Man, second only to mild, scholarly President Ignacy Moscicki, will be the Inspector-General of the Army, Edward Rydz-Smigly...
...Cannon relates wonders in the East which make the notorious rope trick (an illusion, according to him, produced by mass hypnotism) seem like small potatoes. Examples...