Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vital issues involved in the withdrawal of Germany from the League of Nations, the breakdown of the Disarmament Conference, and the menace of Hitlerism. The officers feel that there is much of interest to undergraduates in the recent developments abroad, both in Europe and in the Far East on which to base the subjects of their meetings...
...course, surpassed Britain's peak volume of cotton textile exports. In 1929 Britain exported 3,866,000,000 square yards, Japan 1,418,000,000. What Japan has done is to filch Britain's customary lion's share of what cotton textile orders the East has to give in this lean year...
...bombarding Shanghai last year the Chinese Government promised to issue no more bonds for three years, if China's bankers would subscribe their uttermost then. Subscribe they did. Last week they looked to Dr. Soong to make the Government keep its promise. Abruptly the promise was knocked galley-east when Premier Wang Ching-wei announced that the Government will issue $100.000,000 of Treasury notes "repayable in 150 monthly payments''-i.e. long-term securities, virtually bonds which will not be fully paid off for twelve long years...
...National Charity Air Pageant held last week at Roosevelt Field, L. I. was far from being "the greatest air race in history," as its pressagents shouted, but it packed into two days more spectacular flying than the East had seen in many a year; and it produced an amateur champion airman and airwoman...
...school days, the schools lose $500,000 annually, New York State aid being apportioned on the basis of daily instruction and attendance. New York City provides classes for the blind, deaf, crippled, tuberculous, cardiac, mentally slow. There are classes in Americanization, in vocations, by day and by night. East Side moppets who have never before seen a cornstalk may help till an East Side school-garden. From 1920 to 1930 New York opened new schools at the average rate of one every 13 days (there are now 1,000). A new course for all schoolboys as well as girls...