Word: easts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vicinity of the hurricane, he knew. But British ships had ceased broadcasting weather reports, which might betray their location to submarines, and he had no specific reports of the storm's path which might have enabled him to avoid it. The President Harding, now actually 200 miles east of the hurricane's core, was suddenly buffeted by a no-mile-an-hour wind, floundered in a sea which rolled up into a single mountainous wave that struck her broadside...
...French Ambassador René Massigli and British Ambassador Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen in their talks with Turkish statesmen was the fact that they could promise an immediate large credit. Impressive also to practical-minded Turks must have been the fact that in nearby Syria that old French Near East campaigner, General Maxime Weygand, had collected an imposing Army of 50,000 Frenchmen and that farther south in Jerusalem Lieut.-General Archibald Percival Wavell, who during War I was a British liaison officer to the Russian Imperial Army fighting the Turks, commanded a force of 60,000 Britons. Both these...
Plenty also happened in China to keep U. S. eyes westward to the East. When a Chinese policeman was killed and a Sikh colleague wounded in a Shanghai fracas, polo-playing, hard-working Chairman Cornell S. Franklin of the Shanghai Municipal Council announced that he might ask U. S. Marines to come into the International Settlement and do something the Japanese love to do-restore order. Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei, popping in and out of his fortified castle in Shanghai's "badlands," announced he was "satisfied that Japan's peace conditions toward China do not infringe...
...Austen Butler replied: "Yes, sir, and my noble friend [Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax] has reason to believe that this report is not without foundation." If the Soviet Union was going to give Germany the wherewithal to buy raw materials abroad, possibly in fee simple for hands off in the East Baltic, the blockading British had something to worry about...
This year the Dixie landslide has continued. On the second Saturday of the season, Louisiana State and Alabama overpowered Holy Cross and Fordham-two of the East's most powerful teams. The following week, Tulane trimmed Fordham and North Carolina trounced New York University, a less touted but promising outfit. By last week even the proudest Northerners had to admit that football was acquiring a decided Southern accent. A little grudgingly they conceded that the most outstanding game of the week was not in Yale's hallowed Bowl, not in Minnesota's famed Stadium nor Los Angeles...