Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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THERON E. COFFIN East Orange...
Washington is a 9 o'clock town. Lights that burn late mean not hilarity, but grim business. Last week significant night lights glowed in the two huge, forbidding grey piles that flank the trim beauty of the White House-the Treasury on the East, the State Department on the West...
...best peasants could look forward to another forcible "transplanting" to the East-a trip likely to make the trek of migratory farmers in John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath seem like a quiet vacation. At worst they could expect another hurricane like the uprooting of the peasants in 1930, when 5,000,000 families had their property grabbed. Up to last week what happened to them had depended on one man-Joseph Stalin, who had always been held up to them as the friend of the toiling masses. Now it also depended on a second-Adolf Hitler...
German strategy is necessarily to attack on one front and stand on the defensive on the other. In 1914 the Germans chose to fight first in the west, failed there, then concentrated on winning a victory in the east before turning to the west again. Now faced with the Maginot Line and the modern French army, Germany may reverse her former plan, strike first in the east, giving her airfleet the job of hanging her western enemies...
...looted. In it was a king's cargo: plates of beaten silver delicately embossed, gold clasps inlaid with garnets and mosaic, a great gold buckle chased and ornamented with black enamel filling. Archeologists descending on the scene thought that the king was probably King Raedwald of East Anglia (now the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk), whose palace was at Rendlesham, four miles away. A coroner's jury, hastily convened, decided that plates and ornaments were treasure (abandoned publicly in the ground), not treasure trove (hidden for future gain), therefore belonged to Mrs. Pretty, not the Crown...