Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Appear on the East front of the Capitol; take the oath as President from Chief Justice Hughes; deliver the Inaugural address; start back to the White House...
...seek fame & fortune. He practiced law, served as Mayor of Louisville (1907), sat on the bench, organized long leaf tobacco growers into cooperatives. After his first wife was killed in an automobile accident, he married the widow of Henry Morrison Flagler who made $70,000,000 developing the Florida East Coast. In 1917 she died, leaving Mr. Bingham $5,000,000. The next year he bought the famed Louisville Courier-Journal and the less famed Louisville Times. In his papers he wobbled between the Republican and Democratic parties. In 1928 Hoover was his candidate. In 1932 it was Roosevelt...
...situation in the Far East is very delicate. Since Japan began its offensive in Manchuria, the American policy has been motivated by determination to support the various treaties of peace, like the Kellogg Pact, to defend American interests; to avoid war. It has not always been easy to hold fast to this three-fold purpose, but all three angles were important. Not one must be forgotten. Mr. Roosevelt has expressed approval of what has been done so far. It will be very wise to continue this policy because it is based on respect for treaties, is a policy of peace...
...hours last week the world was like a ball enclosed by an electric bubble. Bubbling away in Switzerland, the superpotent League of Nations wireless station dotted and dashed out 15,000 words on two wave lengths, 20.64 meters for the Western Hemisphere, 38.47 meters for the East. So that even poorly equipped stations could receive, the League slowed down its 130 words-per-minute automatic transmitters to a crawling 25 words-per-minute pace. Soon Washington asked for a speed-up to 75, impatient Shanghai clamored for 100. But Buenos Aires said they could handle not more than 30 words...
...given substance. To the preservation of the territorial integrity of China we are unequivocally committed. Mr. Roosevelt has indicated that he will support the Stimson position upon his accession to power. And yet any attempt along these lines can scarcely ignore the greatest power in the Near East, the Union whose strength in the Basin outweighs that of any other nation. Mr. Fish's fear that recognizing Russia may antagonize Japan is not with-out its humor after the stinging rebukes of Mr. Stimson's notes and the anathema pronounced by the League of Nations...