Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...condition of quiet but actual anarchy which has existed in four eastern counties of his State since 1931 last week engaged for the first time the active attention of Pennsylvania's Governor since 1935, rich George H. Earle. In khaki overalls and a head-lamped miner's cap, Governor Earle inspected a few of the thousands of bootleg holes and abandoned mines from which 20,000 men and boys are openly stealing some $32,000,000 worth of anthracite coal per year from company-owned lands. In Pottsville, Mahanoy City and Shamokin he conferred with citizens...
...Eastern Asia, ten years of butchering Communists and belaboring local satraps into submission were climaxed in 1936 by Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek when his China, for the first time, stopped yielding to Japan's more impossible demands and adopted a policy which could be called "strong" (TIME, Nov. 9). Premier Chiang might well have been Man of the Year had he not, at the zenith of his prestige, been suddenly kidnapped...
...their cables this week, seasoned China correspondents had an adjective for the way in which the kidnapping of Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was ended, and that adjective was "preposterous." In any Occidental sense it was preposterous that the most powerful man in Eastern Asia should have been violently overpowered with the killing of 46 of his guards; lost his false teeth in the process; insisted upon reading the Bible during most of his 13 days' captivity at the hands of a "onetime dope fiend," Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang; and then should suddenly have returned by air to Nanking...
...others.* Because of the monopolistic nature of chain broadcasting, Federal control of licensing and the scarcity of radio stations not tied up with N. B. C. or C. B. S., successful emergence of a rival network with coast-to-coast outlets depended largely upon co-operation of three potent Eastern and Midwestern independents-WOR, Newark; WLW, Cincinnati; WGN, Chicago-and upon securing Pacific Coast facilities...
...Christian faith (TIME, Nov. 3, 1930). Last week Mme Chiang, her brother T. V. Soong, who is the financial kingpin of China, and her brother-in-law, Dr. H. H. Kung, who took on the functions of Premier in China's awful emergency, held the destiny of Eastern Asia in their hands. One false move, they knew, might alter the course of world history to China's disadvantage, and yet what moves could they make...