Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Another kind of relief: the Manhattan Board of Taxes & Assessments reduced the tax valuation of President Roosevelt's town house at No. 49 East 65th St. from $170,000 to $165,000. ¶ The President and Mrs. Roosevelt held the fourth of their state receptions for officials of government departments. Among the guests who arrived in a snow storm was Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. She had on a set of gold Hindu earrings in the shape of cornucopias, a red-gold chain about her neck from which dangled a green-gold frog fashioned by the Chiriqui Indians...
...when Dictator Stalin told the 17th Russian Communist Party Congress: "Those who attack us will get such a decisive blow that they will learn to keep their swinish snouts out of our potato patch. . . . We must take every precaution to prepare ourselves against sudden attacks in the Far East. . . . Relations between Japan and the U. S. S. R. need serious improvement. . . . One section of the military party in Japan openly advocates the necessity of war against the U. S. S. R. . . . The Japanese Government instead of calling these incendiaries to order, washes its hands of the matter. . . . That...
...authorities clapped six Soviet officials of the Chinese Eastern into jail at Harbin where they still languished last week. Since that time Russia's negotiations to sell its $200,000,000 equity in the Chinese Eastern to Manchukuo have completely collapsed. "All wise governments should watch the Far East with the greatest vigilance," wrote M. Herriot. "The question of a railroad in Manchuria brings us to the question of war or peace. . . . War! The word...
...Peasant born and bred to the trade of a foundry workman, Russia's War Commissar spends much time inspecting and orating to collective farms and factories. In 1931, when trouble with Japan first loomed, and again in 1933 ''Klim" inspected not only the whole Soviet Far East frontier but the leading mines, smelters, metallurgical plants, factories and, on his last trip, the colonies of ex-Red soldiers now being established by Dictator Stalin's orders as the patriotic rallying points of luckless Russians who are being forced to colonize Red Far East open spaces as buffers...
...cylinder legal mind, with big names in his address book. For such a bland, patrician barrister, he is in a most astonishing predicament. His wife (Nedda Harrigan) has left him to sin with a young illustrator (Lester Vail). The illustrator has fished a drowning prostitute out of the East River, rushed off to ask Mrs. Mitchell what to do about her. Lawyer Mitchell has chosen this awkward first act moment to call upon the illustrator and settle the score with him. He finds the prostitute there alone, accidentally shoots her dead. When the illustrator is accused of murder, Mrs. Mitchell...