Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view of the decision of the Italian Government to annex the whole of Ethiopia and the consequent menace to our posi-tion in Africa and the Near East, His Majesty's Government have made it clear in unmistakable terms that under no circumstances will interference by Italy with the existing regimes in Egypt and Palestine be permitted, and any attempt to do so will be considered as an unfriendly act ... to be repelled by all the means at their command...
Though it traces its descent back almost 100 years to William ("Parson") Brown-low's famed Tennessee Whig, the Knoxville Journal has had a stormy career. A Republican sheet in Republican East Tennessee, the Journal had its politics spectacularly reversed overnight when swashbuckling Democratic Promoters Luke Lea & Rogers Clark ("Bank on the South") Caldwell bought the paper in 1928. With the collapse of Caldwell's Southern banking and publishing empire (TIME, Nov. 24, 1930), the Journal regained its Republican editorial policy, limped along under the jury-rig of a receivership, with able General Manager Robert H. Clagett keeping...
...shipping containers now go four parts waste paper, one part kraft pulp. More kraft means less weight. To many a big container customer an ounce less weight in its shipping boxes means a sizable cut in shipping costs. At present Container operates 13 plants dotted throughout the East from Natick, Mass, to Cincinnati, from Philadelphia to Chicago. To some 8,000 customers last year went $20,181,000 worth of shipping containers, folding boxes
Scorns the lady from the East...
...clown at the cost of more than a .thousand casualties. When England urged the Union to mop up German Southwest Africa Smuts took fire again with Rhodes's great idea. Then, with German Southwest Africa mopped up. Smuts was given the harder job of absorbing German East Africa. Here he found the Boer War tables exactly turned: this time it was Smuts who had the overwhelming numbers and the enemy who raided, retreated, but were never quite caught. By 1917 Smuts had the country, if not the enemy, in his pocket. Lloyd George invited Ex-Boer Smuts to join...