Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington. Oregon and California stopped, looked and listened last week as Franklin Delano Roosevelt preached them his gospel of "a new deal." At Los Angeles, the two-thirds post of his campaign tour, the Democratic nominee turned the corner and headed east with his no-error record still standing. If September crowds and applause meant November votes (which no rule says they do) the Pacific Coast...
...were crossing the ice from Banks Island to the mainland, the ice broke off. They tried to get to Victoria Island to the east, succeeded in returning to Banks Island...
...tactics. He hates campaigning and crowds. Besides, he thinks it would be undignified to get out and hump himself for office like any ordinary politician. Deaf to suggestions for an extended campaign the President finally consented to make three October speeches ,two in the Midwest. one in the East. Beyond that he would not go, even for another four years in the White House...
...Conservative London Times and the Liberal Manchester Guardian as twin pillars of upright journalism, were puzzled, pained. In Japan schoolchildren clutching Rising Sun flags paraded by the thousand through Tokyo, celebrating the Treaty of Changchun. "Ex Oriente Lux!" headlined Tokyo's erudite & patriotic Kokumin Shimbun. "Light comes from the East! Japan and Manchukuo have become the centre of the world with Japan standing as the Guide to Civilization. . . . What care we for the jealousy and oppression of the Western Powers? Whatever the persecution to be suffered and the sacrifices demanded, we must surmount all obstacles...
...years Home Publishing Co. Ltd. wandered through the wheat deserts of western Canada building prestige and circulation for Western Home Monthly. Twelve months ago the firm decided it was time to enter the more fertile publishing fields of the populous East. With wheat at 50? a bu., Western Home Monthly (headquarters: Winnipeg) found its readers broke. The magazine "went national," guaranteed an A. B. C. circulation of 180,000 by October 1932, a boost of some 60,000 over the distribution it then had. With a whoop of delight, last week the publishers announced that the goal had been reached...