Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years out here in the East, have been in contact with Americans all along but I have so far not found one who had the nerve you seem to have. As said above this 30 years have made me pretty well cosmopolitan, but still I am a German and honour my country, and to be sure I have seen many a dirty article but yours is the limit. Why throw dirt on our Prime Minister Hitler, why run down Hindenburg, both men who have done much more than you will ever be able to. Your whole writing shows that...
After a bloody battle, Japanese troops mashed their way into Miyun, 50 mi. from Peiping. At one point the Japanese advance reached Tungchow, only 13 mi. from Peiping's walls. To the east, Japanese troops were nearing Lutai, 40 mi. from Tientsin. Unaware of Ambassador Debuchi's statement, an official spokesman for General Kotaro Nakamura, commander of the Japanese garrison in Tientsin, announced...
...prophecy, eloquent in a style not unlike that of grandiose Publisher Hearst (whom he despises). To his friends in the wide world for which he has made Vancouver his lookout station he often mails copies of his writings- urging monetization of silver for a great new trade with the East; calling for magnanimous U. S. reduction of War Debts...
...found that Mr. Ridley had owned extensive property uptown as well as many an East Side tenement. In his bank was over $1,000,000 in cash. His will left $812,000 to relatives who had not seen him for years. A bequest of $200,000 was left Weinstein provided the latter survived him. Police medical examiners were hard put to tell which victim had predeceased the other. Since neither body was robbed, it was supposed that some obscure revenge had motivated the crime. A bootlegger's hideout, discovered deep in the same old building, darkened the mystery further...
...Japanese advance pounded in toward Peiping from Kupei Pass on the north and the Lwan River on the east, the Tokyo War Office persisted in its old declarations that Tientsin and Peiping would not be attacked. Said a young attache with a marked Oxford accent...