Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unpleasant charges against the quartet. Hence, they announced that they preferred being extradited to Wisconsin, where only a bank robbery charge awaited them. However a smart Indiana prosecutor swooped into town, extradited Dillinger, loaded him into an airplane and flew him, manacled and guarded by police, back to East Chicago...
...little more than 100 years ago Jamie Brooke of Coombe Grove, England sailed off to work for the East India Co. When his wealthy father died Jamie bought what he called a yacht, stocked it with arms and set off pirateering for Borneo. Since he ended up as the Rajah of Sarawak in Borneo and was knighted by Queen Victoria there is nothing shameful in the story of Little Boy Brooke except court evidence which convinced almost every one except his British judges that he had practiced ruthless extortion on the natives of Sarawak after obtaining it from the Sultan...
...Royal Indian Navy is a paper promise to His Majesty's nut-brown subjects, but from the potent Imperial East Indies Station went Vice-Admiral Dunbar-Nasmith who won his Victoria Cross by torpedoing and sinking from his submarine Ell precisely eleven Turkish ships...
...distance of 350 miles, it was impossible for a British or Dutch officer in active service to express himself publicly last week. What can be said was very well said at The Hague last month by Queen Wilhelmina's onetime Commander-in-Chief of the Netherlands East Indies (including Borneo) defense forces, Lieut-General Gerth...
Strengthened by President Roosevelt's act, Russia now feels strong enough, Comrade Stalin indicated, to withstand an assault from either the East (Japan) or the West (Germany). "We warn all such nations," said the Dictator, "not to poke their swinish snouts into the Soviet potato patch...