Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being taxed by cruel treatment of his people in the territory he has his eye on. The Poles played the same game. When the German press described a "mass flight" of Germans from Polish "terrorism," Poles charged that hundreds of their citizens were being driven daily from Silesia and East Prussia...
...Nazis redoubled their attempt to weaken the Polish customs control of the Danzig-East Prussian frontier. Nazis had already tried ordering German merchants to refuse to sell foodstuffs to Polish officials. A more direct method was tried last week: a Polish customs officer's house was bombed, a Polish stationmaster was attacked by "unknown assailants...
...Brazil this week were two highly placed rival representatives of opposing political and economic systems. Nearing Rio de Janeiro from the North on the U. S. light cruiser Nashville was Brigadier General George Catlett Marshall, soon to become U. S. Army Chief of Staff. Heading for Brazil from the East on the Italian liner Conte Grande was high-powered, gay, vivacious Countess Edda Ciano, wife of the Italian Foreign Minister, favorite daughter of Benito Mussolini...
...congenial group the 150 pound crew obliterated all vague comments about their organization, such as "fine looking crew," "smooth oarsmen", and "well coordinated boat" by bringing home the bacon in the figure of the Goldthwalt Cup, the symbol of their precedence over two other principal lightweight crews of the East. Yale and Princeton. The conquest was expected by many but few had dared to voice their opinions...
...Government Department, the College named the following instructors and tutors: Laurence L. Barber, Jr. 2G., of Arlington; Charles R. Cherington, LL.B. '38, of Cambridge; Guy H. Dodge 5G., of East Cleveland, Ohio; and William S. McCauley 1G., of Cambridge...