Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1914 there has been not a single German consulate in eastern France. Last week Premier Camille Chautemps softened up, permitted Chancellor Adolf Hitler to establish one at Epinal, 50 miles southwest of Strasbourg near Alsace-Lorraine. Indignant Epinal residents complained: "It will be nothing but a nest of spies...
Meanwhile the new type of public architecture which Sullivan had made powerful was sidetracked by the Chicago World's Fair of 1893. Eastern conservatives turned the fair into a magnificent tour de force of neoclassic buildings, and for a quarter-century eclecticism held the stage in U. S. public architecture. Wright kept off the stage. In 1905 he produced, in protest, a well-lighted administration building for the Larkin Co. in Buffalo, severely without ornament, the first office building in the U. S. to use 1) metal-bound, plate-glass doors and windows, 2) all-metal furniture...
...Tiger five, smarting after two last minute defeats in the Eastern Intercollegiate League competition, will attempt to climb out of the League basement against the Crimson quintet...
...selected drawings by old masters, including examples from the Museum collection, the Charles A. Loeser bequest, acquisitions from the Oppenheimer sale held in London last year, and loans from Mrs. Jesse Isidor Straus. Also being shown are some English water colors, and a new permanent exhibition of Near Eastern Art. Included in this latter exhibit are Persian Miniatures and pottery, Syrian glass and Graeco-Roman pottery...
Advocating a program of collective security, William R. Castle '00, former under-secretary of State, last night urged the application of the Neutrality Act against China and Japan in a talk on the Far Eastern situation given in the Union...