Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...election eve parade at Kalayres, Pa., that mining town's Republican Boss Joseph J. Bruno, onetime county detective, was sentenced to three life terms in prison (TIME, Nov. 19, 1934). Since his last trial, Boss Bruno has been confined in Pottsville's county jail, awaiting removal to Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. One morning last week he asked to be permitted to visit a dentist, was motored downtown by a guard named Guy Irving. Finding the dentist's curb occupied, amiable Guard Irving said he told the murderer to go into the office alone, drove...
These three countries form an uninterrupted strip of territory stretching 800 miles clear across Europe from the Baltic to the Black Sea-with Communism on their eastern borders. They could be Europe's "Bastions of Peace," interposed between the antagonistic realms of Stalin and Hitler, and last week newsorgans in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Rumania were giving great play to this slogan, "Bastions of Peace...
...China, nothing is ever exactly what it seems except an assassination, and the kidnapping of the greatest man in Eastern Asia, unless it should be followed by his assassination, lacked any quality of finality. It was considered by nearly all Chinese, when the staggering news broke, as open to the highly probable suspicion that the Premier of China had had himself kidnapped from the noblest of motives...
...case, the Young Marshal had rocked Eastern Asia by starting last week either a war between China and Japan or a much bigger civil war than has raged in China for some years. The famed "Christian Marshal," Feng Yu-hsiang, who ranks as China's most benevolent and adroit double-crosser, could hardly wait to get in on whatever was taking place at Sian. "I will fly thither at once," roared the Christian Marshal, "and offer myself as a hostage to the Young Marshal for the safety of the Generalissimo...
Standard Oil of California nevertheless remained in the running until May 1935. when Oilman Sinclair cagily deprived Standard of its big incentive for buying Richfield by buying out Richfield's Eastern subsidiary. Richfield Oil Co. of New York. There followed a period in which the Doherty-Sinclair understanding awaited better days in the oil business and Richfield's able Receiver William Chester McDuffie continued to cut down annual losses in the face of excessive depreciation and depletion charges. Last spring, when Richfield was coming back to black ink for the first time since 1930, Harry Sinclair and Harry...