Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russians v. Japanese, White Russians v. Red Russians, bandits v. everybody. Into this hotbed, as U. S. Consul, stepped George Charles Hanson, huge, round, genial and imperturbable as a sculptured Buddha. In Shanghai, Chefoo, Dairen, Newchwang, Tientsin, Swatow, Chungking, Foochow he had already made himself one of the Far East's best-known diplomats. It had been 13 years since he left his native Bridgeport, Conn, as a Cornell engineering graduate. In that time he had learned to stay sober while gulping vast quantities of vodka, stay suave while sipping small quantities of tea, tell jokes in Russian...
With bright prospects for another win in the Gunstock Trail Race, the most important third class race in the East, the Harvard ski team will leave for Guilford, New Hampshire, Thursday, to get in a few days' practice under Coach Charley Proctor before the Sunday race...
Early Sunday morning a buoyant, almost jovial, man stepped off the 20th Century Limited in New York's Grand Central Terminal, consented to be photographed, refused to be interviewed, hurried through the almost deserted lobby. A handful of commuters recognized Herbert Hoover, clapped, cheered. On his first visit East since he left the White House, Citizen Hoover came to attend his first meeting as a director of New York Life Insurance...
...prizes) which he has sought in vain from such tycoons as Edsel Ford and Philip Knight ("P. K.") Wrigley. Proposed route: Washington to Miami and the Canal Zone, down the West Coast of South America to Santiago (Chile), across the Andes to Buenos Aires, up the East Coast to Panama and Mexico City, thence to San Francisco and across...
...Miss Woodsmall the extensive journeying which will be her lot as general secretary will be no great novelty. She taught school in Nevada and Colorado, became a Wartime hostess behind the French lines and in Coblenz. Doing Y. W. C. A. work for eight years in the Near East, Miss Woodsmall became an expert on the status of Oriental women. She will attend a women's suffrage meeting in Istanbul next April...