Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...terms such demands were equivalent to an ultimatum from Tokyo demanding that President Roosevelt disband the Democratic Party on the Pacific-Coast, appoint a Japanese puppet Governor of California and withdraw all U. S. military forces to east of the Rocky Mountains...
Incredibly, Robert College survived and flourished. It found rich U. S. patrons, notably the late Cleveland H. Dodge. Other U. S. educational ventures sprang up in the Near East-Istanbul Woman's College, International College at Izamir, American University of Beirut, American College of Sofia, Athens College. Slowly Near Easterners overcame their fixed idea that all foreign ventures in their lands were for purposes of political or commercial advantage. In time the U. S. colleges, independent but banded together since 1919 in the Near East College Association, were acclaimed as brilliant beacons in the Near East march toward Western...
Last week Robert's sprightlier spirits gained a friend when Walter Livingston ("Livy") Wright Jr. accepted the joint presidency of Robert and Istanbul Woman's Colleges. Simultaneously Princeton lost one of its best-liked, most scholarly professors, raised its list of alumni heading Near East educational institutions...
...right to a salute of eleven guns from British warships by the way in which he influenced the loyalties of his spiritual followers during the War. From his grandfather, kin and onetime crony of Mohammed Shah of Persia, he inherited the best string of Arabian horses in the East. Twice married, the Aga Khan's present wife is the onetime dressmaking daughter of a French innkeeper...
...dredging was done on Georges Bank, about 120 miles east of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, under the direction of Henry C. Stetson, Research Associate in Palaeontology, Museum of Comparative Zoology. The dredging work will be continued this summer in the Hudson River submarine channel off New York Harbor and in the submarine valleys off the Maryland coast...