Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month the U. S. protested that Japan had closed besieged China's "Open Door" to U. S. business. Chapter & verse of specific violations of the Nine Power Treaty of 1922 were sent from Washington to Tokyo. Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye observed that there was a "new order" in East Asia, and the Japanese Foreign Office official spokesman declared that the Nine Power Treaty was "obsolete...
...firm conviction of the Japanese Government that in the face of the new situation fast developing in East Asia any attempt to apply to the conditions of today and tomorrow inapplicable ideas and principles of the past would neither contribute toward the establishment of real peace in East Asia nor solve immediate issues...
...newspapers, looked around for someone to put his paper on its feet. Johnston met Wythe Williams, and the Greenwich News-Graphic not only got a new editor but a new punning name, Greenwich Time. Wythe Williams set out to make his Connecticut suburban paper the Emporia Gazette of the East...
...huge gilt-&-white East Room of the White House, Cordell Hull last week proudly set his name to the most important achievement of what many believe is the New Deal's most successful program-its reciprocal trade pacts. Into effect for three years at least went trade agreements between the U. S. and Great Britain, between the U. S. and Canada...
...when NBC's Iconoscope camera accidentally focused on a girl's falling body, followed it six stories to the sidewalk in front of Manhattan's TIME & LIFE Building. Last week NBC's television mobile unit went to the bank of New York City's East River to televise a swimming pool. When the engineer saw fire break out in an abandoned U. S. Army barracks on Wards Island, he swung his camera around, caught and sent through the air television's first fire. Flames, smoke, a fireboat's futile efforts to save...