Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeal especially to the Government to assist our Pacific and Far Eastern shipping!" cried Lord Lloyd. "The traffic between Bombay and Japan, not many years ago, was entirely British. Now it is 80% Japanese...
Speaker for the regular officers against the strike, Evan J. Jones, vice-president of the Eastern and Gulf Sailors' Association, is the only one of the three men originally scheduled who is sure to be in Emerson D at 8 o'clock...
...redoubtable adversary at war, a brilliant military organizer, a friend of learning and perhaps the best educated man of his time. With Aristotle he discussed the philosopher's schemes for the organization of real knowledge, with Isocrates he planned a great union of Greek states to dominate the Eastern world. Occasionally he got drunk...
...Washington, President Roosevelt conferred with his Cabinet, then declined to intervene. Secretary Perkins declared that Mediator McGrady would yet solve the "regular" West Coast strike, dismissed the Eastern strike as that of a "rump organization." Other highlights...
...Roosevelt but more than any other candidate ever polled in Cook County: 1,276,984. With these warnings ringing in its ears, the machine put its City Council to work. Two days after the election, in which Chicagoans voted 2-to-1 in an advisory referendum against "Kelly Time" (Eastern Standard), the Council humbly honored the mandate, put Chicago back on Central Standard time...