Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the bravery of youth two young Socialists, Harry Leland Mitchell and Clay East from eastern Arkansas, set out in 1934 to do something for Southern sharecroppers. What they did, with the help of No. 1 Socialist Norman Thomas, was to organize the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Having bearded many a planter and even bettered matters a little for its poverty-stricken membership, S. T. F. U. in 1937 tried to affiliate with C. I. O. as an autonomous union. Because the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing & Allied Workers of America was already in the farm field...
...outside world had been curious about Stalin's view of the German push to the East. Would he threaten Hitler? Would he talk about Russia's armed strength? To everyone's surprise his remarks were addressed not against Germany but against the democracies, whom he charged with "urging the Germans on to march farther East, promising them easy pickings and prompting them: 'You start a war against the Bolsheviks and then everything will proceed nicely.' " Their ulterior motive, he said, was to get Germany and Russia into war, let them knock each other groggy...
Lawrence took no interest in women but was sometimes friendly, usually polite. But Liddell Hart tells of his sitting at dinner next a French duchess who gushed about the marvelous nights in the East. "Sweaty, aren't they?" said...
...HAVEN, Conn., March 17--There was brilliant swimming to be seen here in Payne Whitney Pool this evening as the top tankmen of the East gathered to compete in the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League individual championships...
...Hitler's actual future policy as a result of this move, two plausible paths appeared to Potter. Either he is filling out his Southeastern boundary and protecting his rear preparatory to a move to the West towards Denmark and Holland, or he is continuing his move to the East and expanding the German Empire to include control of the Danube basin countries as outlined in "Mein Kampf...