Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pulsing with the thrill of it, Joe Grew at Lahore "straddled the Big Gun as Kim had done." Then he plunged into the deeper East to write that he loved its "vivid colors and majestic smells." He still does, despite what the East did to him. In the Malay States malaria deafened one ear and nearly killed him. He came home to write a book about tiger hunting, Sport and Travel in the Far East, passionately resolved not to go into Boston banking. For a scion of the aloof Grews the only way to live in the places with magic...
...until the President had a mind to go tiger hunting in the East and chanced to read Grew's account of the subject did Grew get his first break in the Service. Any young man who could crawl single-handed into a cave and dispose of a tiger, Teddy Roosevelt decided, deserved promotion. One of Grew's best jobs was done in Germany just before the War, shooting pheasants with the ebullient Kaiser and deftly restraining his own ebullient chief, Ambassador James W. Gerard...
...found it extremely convenient not to hear too fiery outbursts by supercharged Japanese patriots at formal dinners. His reports, always held up as models of freshness and exactitude in the State Department, have, however, been weighted as never before with strong advice that in dealing with the Far East it is now necessary that Washington take a firm
...Farmer Takes a Wife (by Frank B. Elser & Marc Connelly; Max Gordon, producer). In 1825 cannons boomed from Albany to Buffalo as Governor De Witt Clinton, on a red and yellow barge, opened the Erie Canal. For 50 years it was the main commercial artery between East and West, the marvel of its time until the railroads came. With much nostalgic tenderness has Walter D. Edmonds (Rome Haul) written of the canal as it approached its decadence. Two able adapters, Marc Connelly (The Green Pastures) and Frank B. Elser (Mr. Gilhooley), have preserved for the stage every jot of humor...
...head the new Association of American Railroads (TIME, Oct 1), it was a foregone conclusion that his right-hand man, Howard Shirley Palmer, would succeed him as president of New York. New Haven & Hartford. Last week President Palmer, whose father was and is the Maine Central station agent at East Summer, Me., assumed his duties. First day he arrived at his office...