Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...April 20 issue of your magazine on p. 22 under the caption Eastern Asia there appear statements concerning General Chang Chun, Minister of Foreign Affairs of China...
...weeks before the Democratic national convention in 1932 the Press boomed with news of the "Stop Roosevelt" movement. In the past fortnight supporters of the Governor of Kansas for the GOPresidential nomination have been encouraged by widespread reports of a "Stop Landon" movement developing among Eastern conservatives...
...expensive Manchukuoan conquest. Six months ago they suddenly became aware of another adventure of Japanese militar ists for which they had only the wildest enthusiasm. Last November, without the use of a single regiment, Japan's Major General Kenji Doihara set up a pro-Japanese "autonomous government" in eastern Hopei known as the Autonomous Federation for Joint Defense Against Communism. Its head was a twerpish-looking young man known as Yin Ju-keng, whose only flash of independence is a stolid refusal to allow himself to be photo graphed with his two Japanese advisers...
...Eastern Hopei lies between the Great Wall of Peiping and the vitally important port of Tientsin. One of the first moves of Puppet Yin was to cut customs duties to 25% of those of the Nationalist Government. Japanese junks landed huge cargoes of silk, rayon, woolen goods, cosmetics and, most of all, sugar at Hopei fishing villages. Trucks and canal boats, most of them flying Japanese flags, smuggled the goods into Peiping and Tientsin, have recently extended the trade to Kiangsu, Anhwei, Honan, Shensi and even Kansu province...
Ever since the Interstate Commerce Commission ordered a radical cut in U. S. rail rates (TIME, March 9), all the Eastern lines except the Baltimore & Ohio have yammered that the new rates (2? per mi. in coaches; 3? in Pullmans) were unfair, would do the roads more harm than good. When the ICC turned a deaf ear to all protests and ordered the new rates into effect June 2 as scheduled, the Eastern group decided on a court fight. Fortnight ago the B. & O. declared it would lower its rates anyway...