Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Premier Laval is displaying amazingly little of the clear logic for which his race has been historically noted in his present efforts to smooth over the annoying little unpleasantness in East Africa. Piously dressed in his Sunday-go-to-Geneva best, Mr. Laval suggests that if only Great Britain will recall her fleet from the Mediterranean and leave her children, Gilbraltar, Malta, and Egypt, to be watched over by the eye of heaven alone, Mussolini will stop cringing from fear and beat his swords into plowshares for use on the Roman Campagna...
...rank. They ate at the officers' mess, billeted with the troops, were furnished transportation by motor, horse, mules. Toughest assignment was handed UNIPressman Herbert R. Ekins. Newshawk Ekins, who covered the Manchurian War in a battered Ford, was last week riding muleback with the Ethiopian army in the East. By means of courier to the wire-less station at Harar, he reported that he was full of quinine, covered with flea bites, that Ethiopian soldiers all around him were catching malaria...
...more than one hour with pictures of Sophie Crempa's funeral (see p. 16). Because an hour is more than 60 minutes-as time is reckoned by afternoon newspapers, the Journal's scoop was noteworthy. Its secret was to be found on the roof of the huge East River plant which houses both of William Randolph Hearst's New York newspapers...
...East Prussia, Reichsführer Hitler, Field Marshal von Mackensen and many another stood at attention in impressive ceremony as the body of Reichspräsident Paul von Hindenburg was transferred from a side tower of the massive Tannenberg war memorial to a permanent vault in the centre tower. Over the national hero's coffin lay the old German war flag with the iron cross on red, white and black. At half-mast everywhere else in Germany only the new Nazi swastika banner was allowed...
Married, Penelope Borden, daughter of the late Milkman Lewis Mercer Borden, sister of Chicago Dramacritic Gail Borden II, great-granddaughter of Gail Borden I, who invented condensed milk; and Summitt Edward Boone of Manhattan, in East Hampton...