Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan is an anti-Communist ally of Adolf Hitler's Germany and Benito Mussolini's Italy. She felt that Germans should not aid China, well knowing that the Germans constituted to a considerable extent the brains of the Chinese Army. Two months ago Germany obliged her Far Eastern ally by recalling the commission. When Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek showed strong reluctance to release the Germans from their contracts, Germany recalled Ambassador Oskar Trautmann from Hankow, hinted he might not be allowed to return...
...that Japan has her hands full in China France, concerned for the safety of Indo-China, is evidently changing her original policy of trying to protect her eastern empire by currying favor with the Japanese. Consequently, in frequent brushes in Japanese-occupied Peking and Shanghai, the French have stood up to the Japanese much more firmly than the representatives of the U. S. and Britain. Fortnight ago the French again pulled Japan's nose. Last February an agreement was reached tending to facilitate payment of French commercial credits owed by Japan. Recently French creditors informed the French Foreign Office...
While everybody in the air transport business knew that the new act was far better for all concerned than anything previously devised for air industry control, they knew, too. in the words of Eastern Airlines' plain-talking War Ace Eddie Rickenbacker, that "the McCarran-Lea act will be only as good as the men who comprise the board...
...Tossed a crumb to the starving railroads. Turning down a petition for a 10% rise in Pullman rates as "unreasonable," the Interstate Commerce Commission did consent to a 5% rise. This gave eastern roads new hope that ICC may look favorably on their renewed petition for higher coach passenger fares. Meanwhile last week, the railroad unions agreed to discuss the proposed 15% wage cut at a meeting July 20 and Class I roads as a group reported a net loss...
...there were 105 summer theatres of all kinds, mostly scattered along the eastern seaboard from Skowhegan, Me., to Arden, Del. By last year there were 145. This year, Variety (which callously calls the summer theatre the "straw-hat stage," summer theatre actors "hayfoots" and "silo stagers"), lists 150. The summer theatre's gross is now about $5,000,000 in its annual three-month season. In 1936, Actors Equity Association divided professional summer theatres into Classes A & B, which are the only summer theatres in which Equity members may perform. Class A companies, of which there were 35 last...