Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan is endeavoring to maintain and enhance friendly relations with foreign nations, but Japan considers that, to keep peace and order in East Asia, she must act single-handed and on her own responsibility. Japan considers that no other country except China is in a position to share that responsibility...
...Japan is at present in a position to maintain peace in the Far East and does not need the help of others. If the League of Nations should take concerted action in China having political significance, it would be objectionable...
...Meantime reports grew that a Negro cult school called the University of Islam was making corresponding gains. Alarmed teachers complained to the city attorney. Detroit's truant officers called at the University of Islam, housed on the second floor of an old brick theatre building, ten blocks east of the city's downtown business district, and had the door shut in their faces. They went back with police, but the school's instructors were clam-mouthed. All the visitors saw were some 40 little blackamoors marching in military formation...
Died. Col. William Thaw II, 40, pioneer U. S. aviator who once flew under the four bridges which spanned New York City's East River, Wartime commander of the Lafayette Escadrille; of pneumonia; in Pittsburgh...
...warm and weighty costume, and many a Californian finds clothes a nuisance. So Mrs. Coffman sold some of her horses, put bicycles in the empty stalls. Film stars soon began to wheel madly around & around Palm Springs. Bicycling became a raging West Coast fad, spread rapidly to the East. Thus was born last year's bicycle boom which dropped unsought into the laps of U.S. bicycle makers. In the middle of the 1890's when Daisy Bell ("But you'd look sweet on the seat of a bicycle built for two") was a song...