Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neatest trick of the week was performed by British Author Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey, barred from the U. S. by Franklin Roosevelt's State Department for being a Communist (TIME, Oct. 24). Bailed out of Ellis Island on condition that he deliver no lectures. Red-stained Mr. Strachey nevertheless managed to throw a dubious kiss at Franklin Roosevelt: "My chief regret is that I cannot now express publicly my support for the New Deal and my detestation of Fascism and Nazism in all their forms...
Tokyo censors passed cables in which foreign correspondents guessed this meant the Japanese Navy will proceed to take Chinese Hainan Island adjacent to French Indo-China. Hainan lies uncomfortably close to the French naval base at Saigon and commands the route between British Hong Kong and British Singapore. Hainan in Japanese hands would be the sort of pistol Hitler pointed when he mobilized 1,500,000 Germans to solve the Sudeten problem without...
...Louisiana the geese fly north so far and fast they literally disappear into the blue. But in 1929 a Canadian naturalist and explorer named Dr. Joseph Dewey Soper at last found a happy ending to his wild-goose chase. He traced the geese into the remote fastness of Baffin Island, deep in the Canadian Northeast, discovered their nesting place...
Harvard Club of Rhode Island: Stuart H. Cowen, of Coventry, West Warwick...
Emerson was born on the Island of Maui in 1845, of missionary parents. As a boy he began to collect tree snails from the Hawaiian mountain ridges, valleys, and low coastlands. Since his collections were begun, deforestation of the lowlands to create farm and grazing land, and importation of foreign animal and insect posts, have led to the extermination of many of the species...