Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...program of tour includes visits to the Afric colonies and territories of Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika, Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia, all of which lands may some day be federated into an already projected "Empire of East Africa...
...problems of federation are already being ably grappled with by a Royal Commission, it is felt that a casual hunting trip by Edward of Wales may do something to persuade the colonies and territories that they might like to have this pleasant, popular young man for their very own East African Emperor...
After thoroughly "covering" East Africa the Princes will proceed to South Africa and spend Christmas in Cape Town with their austere, not very popular uncle the Earl of Athlone, brother to Her Majesty Queen Mary, and Governor General of the Union of South Africa...
...such music sounds queer and ugly, as the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra would sound queer to the inhabitants of the far places. Yet oriental music did not sound ugly to Leopold Stokowski, famed insurgent conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony. In fact during a recent and extensive tour of the Far East he stood "literally hypnotized ... by music such as western ears had never heard, wildly discordant but with overtones of grandeur." Always eager to shock the music-lovers of Philadelphia, Leopold Stokowski swore that he would carry these aboriginal harmonies home with him to Pennsylvania...
...noted a staid though flag-bedecked building on East 41st Street. Of what importance could it be? Where were crowds, vociferous fanfare? Yet inside were 140 Englishmen, 200 Americans carefully explaining what they had scientifically done for industry. They made up the Society of Chemical Industry. Their meeting was the first held in the U. S. since...