Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entire nation under a "state of siege" clapped on all news the tightest censorship in years. Private cables assured the State Department that its chief was safe, proceeding with Mrs. Hull to Chile where he will sail home up the west coast of South America (he sailed down the east coast). According to President Justo, who had Argentine news decidedly all his own way, the series of rebellions was "crushed." It was started, he charged, by friends of the late but deathlessly popular President Dr. Hipolito Irigoyen, undoubtedly the best friend that Argentina's Forgotten Man ever had (TIME...
...life-size portrait of "Ilyich1'- orating to proletarians. Near the death mask hung an architect's drawing of the Palace of the Soviets, most grandiose project to be attempted under Russia's present Second Five-Year Plan. Though young Hector 0. Hamilton, a British architect of East Orange, N. J., won $2,000 with his design for the Palace of Soviets Dictator Stalin later scrapped Mr. Hamilton's plan. It did not call for "the tallest building in the world," which is what Comrade Stalin wants. Pointing proudly last week to the new design, by Comrades...
Presently out of the northern sky scudded fleets of Nanking battle planes, nearly all of U. S. make. They bombed and thoroughly machine-gunned Foochow and Changchow 32 mi. east of Amoy. Thrice they returned to deal more death. In vain the Fukien rebel leader, Eugene Chen, stormed: "Those planes were bought by public subscription for defense against Japan. Chiang Kai-shek [Nanking's Generalissimo] didn't have nerve enough to use them against the Japanese. Oh no! But he does not hesitate to use them to massacre his own countrymen...
Captain Morse, one of the outstanding quarter-milers in the East, will run the 440-yard dash while sprints will be entrusted to Edwin E. Calvin '35. Climaxing his season by winning three first places against Yale, Robert S. Playfair '36, will be entered in the mile and 1000-yard run. Thomas F. Locke '35, Anthony A. Bliss '36, and John White '34 ar also expected to show up well
...Hickey, 37. master of the American Export Liner Exarch; by his own hand; aboard his ship, few hours after it went aground on the coast of Cyprus at midnight in fair weather. Died. Knud Rasmussen, 54, Danish explorer; of complications following an attack of food poisoning suffered in East Greenland where, making sound films of an Eskimo festival, he partook of the feast; in Copenhagen. Greenland-born, son of a Danish missionary and an Eskimo girl, he knew the difficult, highly inflected Eskimo tongue from birth; spent most of his life studying Greenland and its people; wrote books which ethnologists...