Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when the outgoing President was Harding's Secretary of Commerce. The elder Wallace's plans for farm relief were frustrated by the White House influence of Secretary Hoover. Secretary Wallace, a good Republican to the end, died in office (1924), lay in state in the White House East Room. This year the younger Wallace had his revenge when he helped turn Iowa Democratic...
...meetings of this Committee in Geneva, meanwhile, France, Italy and Czechoslovakia had opposed as "premature" a backhanded suggestion by British Captain Anthony Eden that each Committeeman say whether his Government thought the problem of exportation of arms had yet been raised by events in the Far East. In other words: "How about declaring an arms embargo against Japan or China or both?" Excitedly in London the Chinese Legation at once protested that the Great Powers would be helping Japan if they declared an embargo against both countries, since Japan is already so much better armed than China...
...Great Powers face stupendous obstacles (Chinese as well as Japanese) to any effort to bring peace & order into the Far East. On the other hand, as Genevans pointed out last week, the Assembly's action is a potent fact. "It is," cried China's exultant Chief Delegate Dr. W. W. Yen, "a verdict of Guilty against the misguided leaders of Japan. ... It is a crushing but fair verdict, a terrible but just indictment...
While grim Japanese moved to crush Jehol in the jaws of a major offensive, short, stout, redoubtable Governor Tang Yulin put on a one-man Chinese rodeo in his yamen at Chengteh, delighted correspondents with Chinese cowboy feats. (Jehol has been called China's "Wild East...
Morale High. First white war correspondent to report from central Jehol was United Press's Herbert R. Ekins. "I saw the real picture of warfare today," he flashed from Lingyuan. "Passing through three lines of Chinese trenches I witnessed three Japanese airplanes flying out of the east circle low. . . . One plane dropped a bomb which exploded with a terrific blast, but, except for ripping a huge crater in the ground, it merely injured a 10-year...