Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Benito Mussolini loves maps. But when his eye leaves Italy, it finds only Libya, Eritrea and Italian Somaliland in Africa for Italian colonies. It is Asia, the East, that gives him the stuff for vast, cloudy dreams. What Japan has done in Manchuria, what France is doing in Yunnan, Italy may well do some day in the Orient...
...catch, so far as the East is concerned, is that the average monthly aid is $15 and the maximum amount a student may receive from Uncle Sam during the college year is $120. this is sizable money in the West and South where at state universities, a few hundred dollars pays for tuition, room and board. At most New England colleges it would not cover the tuition fee for the first semester, let alone other expenses! Although twenty-three Massachusetts institutions are co-operating in the plan, it is hard to see how their students will profit much...
...Ticket team of the East Cambridge Police force opened its 299th annual series with the Perfidious Parkers to the tune of a no-hit, no-run, and no-error shutout...
...Middle West, which inherits its opinions to a less degree than the East, has swung, at least on the surface, into the anti-administration ranks. In Chicago, pivot of the nation, only the tabloid "Times" still supports the President. Hearst has tuned against him, and Colonels McCormick and Knox, publishers of the "Tribune" and "News" respectively, are both hot-footing it after the Republican nomination in 1936 by editorially out-damning each other in successive editions. The upper middle classes, the lawyers and bankers, are scared and make no bones about the matter. The butcher and baker, rightly accepting...
...slipped the little, town of Palos from which they had so lately set their sails. To the front lay the Cape, beckoning them to newer worlds. Beyond still farther fell that mystic headland which sailors have come to revere as do Gata, and then, still farther, farther to the East, lay the still silent rock which kept the entrance to their maritime knowledge. Beyond,--beyond that rock few men had ventured, and those who had, dared not to pass in straight defiance of the beetling brow of the noble Cape St. Vincent, so stern a guardian of the continent...