Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WILLIAM, otherwise the Bastard of Failaise, sat in his ducal castle at Rouen and meditated on the weakness and perfidy of kings. He was fully as strong as his Capetian overlord on the East, and he had put that monarch firmly in his place on several occasions, taking bits of disputed territory to prove it. But fendal law was still in the eleventh century: William never thought of aspiring to the crown of France. His ambition lay in another direction...
...support of the Yankee patriots, every banker and broker would tremble with rage. But the sincere patriotism of those latter-day Minute Men of 1934 hits the Middle Western farmer, receiving regular handouts from the government, as a particularly sharp annoyance from some small-town Old-Dealers of the East. And the bankers, knowing from experience, what the Minute Men know from feeling, join chorus with Lexington...
...having found its mark in Washington. There is undoubtedly much fear and to-do in the South, West, and Middle-West; of the planless planning, the extravagance, and the new-booms-and-depressions of the Roosevelt regime. But the expressions of this are not going to come from the East, if at all. In the popular mind, the voice of the East is the voice of the Bankers, and the intensity of this feeling can be blamed on the policies and speeches to the New Dealers, and their attendant nuisance, Father Coughlin, Huey Long, Jim Farley and the rest...
...star in the east was Saturn. So last week pronounced a German wise man, Professor Oswald Gerhardt of Berlin, who had been pursuing it for years. And Jesus Christ was born April 2 in the year 7 B. C., wrote Professor Gerhardt in Forschungen und Fortschreiten (Researches and Progress). According to ancient Jewish and Christian texts, Saturn ruled the Hebrews. The Messiah was expected to arrive under this "Star of God," which was called both Chiun (Amos, 5:26) and Remphan (Acts, 7:43). In Babylon and Susa, whence came the Wise Men, Saturn was visible at the time...
...spite of his name and his southern-European style of writing, Henry Baerlein was born in the very Brit ish spot of Manchester, on April Fool's Day 59 years ago. But Manchester could not hold him long. World-wide traveler, his particular provinces are the Near East. Mexico, Spain, the republics of Central Europe. He speaks many languages fluently, some like a native. (In Albania his glibness brought him under suspicion of being a Jugoslav spy.) Author Baerlein says of himself: "Henry Baerlein has this resemblance to a happy country in tint he is rather devoid of history...