Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...capital of Peking. Apparently he had slipped off to visit a brothel, but the Japanese accused the Chinese of abducting him and holding him in the city of Wanping. Next day, although the missing man had long since taken his place in line, Japanese troops opened fire outside the east gate of the city...
Thus began the second direct test-at-arms between Japanese and Chinese since 1894. The Japanese, who aspire to rule the Far East as Britain has ruled Europe since Elizabeth's day, by fragmentation of the neighboring continent, had grown frightened of China's growing political unity and economic strength. Under Strong Man Chiang Kaishek, who the previous December had formed a tacit anti-Japanese front with the powerful Chinese Red Army, China was close to being an integrated nation-closer than at any time since the 18th Century, when the Manchus had ruled an empire that stretched...
Russia, riddled by the purges of the Trotskyite dissenters, was in no mood to fight a Far Eastern war on behalf of the Chinese. Great Britain, strongest European power in the Far East, was hamstrung by fears lest the year-old Civil War in Spain leap its national boundaries and rage through the Mediterranean and along the Rhine. The French Popular Front Government, bedeviled by fiscal troubles, was in no position to take part of the White Man's Burden in Asia on its sagging shoulders. The U. S., although its Navy was growing, had only recently passed...
...scorched earth and burned buildings, the Japanese have seized the cities and important railroads of North China, and have pushed their lines up the Yangtze valley to Hankow. Japan's conquest at its furthest limits extends 1,000 miles from north to south, 1,000 miles from east to west...
...walls of the 17-acre, air-conditioned clothing factory of Richman Bros. Co. on Cleveland's East 55th Street bloomed last week with signs: "Remember Dad." Each of 2,500 Richman Bros, employes (all but some 25 of whom are stockholders in the company, none of whom is a union member) gave 1? to buy a gift that "daddy" would like. At week's end, beaming through his bifocals, 70-year-old "daddy" got his Father's Day present: two pairs of pajamas...