Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...headed by Secretary of War and Mrs. Dern (pale grey satin)-Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins (black velvet) arrived late-and passed into the Blue Room to "receive." Instead of assembling on the stairs and marching counterclockwise (according to precedent) through the first floor, the guests started from the East Room, marched clockwise to the Blue Room. Head of the procession was Dean of the Diplomatic Corps Ahmet Muhtar, Turkish Ambassador (no lady); next major diplomat, Britain's Sir Ronald Lindsay (Lady Lindsay absent, ill). A second breach of precedent became evident as the diplomats toiled past. Instead...
...hostilities broke out in Manchuria between China and Japan, Stalin has concentrated his attention on foreign policy. Since 1930 no diplomatic step has been taken without directions from Stalin. The Dictator has been profoundly disturbed by the repeated humiliations to which Japan has subjected Russian prestige in the Far East. He certainly counts on a Japanese attack. His whole strategy is therefore directed toward creating the most favorable attitude possible toward Russia in Europe in order to be able to meet the danger of Japanese provocation with as little risk as possible...
...Tibbett had twin sons by his first wife, Grace Mackay Smith, who worked in a Los Angeles realtor's office so that Tibbett could go East to study. When rich & famed, Tibbett got a divorce. His present wife, Jennie, had three sons by her first husband, John Clark Burgard, San Francisco broker and sportsman...
Stocky, genial, accustomed to bustling about his city room in his shirt sleeves, Publisher Stern lives in a square colonial house at East Haddonfield, N. J. with his wife, whom he married when she was an undergraduate at Bryn Mawr, and their four children. He smokes long black cigars, drives his car recklessly, plans to commute to Manhattan by plane. His office at the Record has a kitchenette where his butler makes his lunch on busy days...
Bali, the sleepy Dutch East Indian island which has become a Utopia for jaded Occidentals, was one of the last ports of call for Composer Henry Eichheim, a great traveler since he stopped playing the violin in the Boston Symphony. Composer Eichheim was mightily impressed with the subtle variations the Balinese weave around their five-tone scale. His own Bali, a recording of these impressions, was played in Philadelphia by Leopold Stokowski to whom it was dedicated. A magnificent orchestration, replete with Balinese gongs and percussives, gave it true exotic coloring...