Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...launch, the President did not wait to see the Harvard varsity beaten again in a race that was postponed one day because of rough water (see p. 52). Instead he returned to Hyde Park for a secluded weekend, went to Manhattan to have dinner at his house on East 65th Street, continued on to Washington to demand immediate enactment of his tax proposals...
...Premier Mussolini seems to have plunged into his Ethiopian adventure without proper preparation and perhaps with lack of knowledge of true conditions in East Africa. It looks as if he had bitten off more than he can chew...
...Down East" in the 1850's the budding songwriter was regarded as a rapscallion. When he might have been brooding over crops, he was strumming a mandolin, playing at country dances, barnstorming in minstrel shows. During the Civil War he commanded a Negro detachment called Company G. One day he heard a dusky private muttering, "Shoo, fly, don't bother me." Thereupon Bishop wrote another song which every soldier sang...
Mbiyu Wa Koinange, which means Mbiyu, son of Koinange, is the son of Koinange Wa Mbiyu, which means Koinange, son of Mbiyu. In Bantu "koinange" means "dancer," Koinange Wa Mbiyu, chief of 800,000 Kikuyu tribesmen in British East Africa's Kenya Colony, was a good dancer in his youth but he never learned to read & write. Last week Mbiyu Wa Koinange, who will soon succeed his aged father as chief of the Kikuyus, got his A. B. degree at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio...
Once and for all it should be recognized that our financial interests are bound up with the prosperity of Japan and the pacification of China. Japan is our best customer in the Far East. Furthermore her merchants are our leading agents in China. It is essentially stupid for the United States to climb out on any more limbs in behalf of English investments in China or French money in Indo-China. We hold no concessions in China. Neither have we any territory which is prejudiced by Japanese aggression or investments, which are worth the price of adequate defense...