Word: northeasters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue of TIME, your reporter erred in "Townsend Test" article when he states: "Chelan, a Main-Street town of 2,000 population perched high above the Columbia River, some 90 miles northeast of Grand Coulee...
...Francis Everett Townsend's day as economic savior of the nation is past virtually everywhere but in Chelan, Wash. Chelan, a Main-Street town of 2,000 population, is perched high above the Columbia River, some 90 miles northeast of Grand Coulee Dam. Chelanites depend for their livelihood on seasonal occupation in the fine apple orchards of broad Chelan Valley. In the winter, when there is little work for them in the snow-covered orchards, they are hard pressed. Naturally enough, they readily subscribed to the ideas of Dr. Townsend, formed a Townsend Club soon after his something...
...eastern coast of Shantung peninsula in northeast China is the city of Tsingtao. There last week 36,000 Chinese workers were locked out of nine Japanese-owned textile mills. Immediately 800 fully-armed Japanese marines landed at Tsingtao on the pretext of "safeguarding Japan's interests." rampaged all over the seaport, arrested three prominent Chinese, raided the Chinese Nationalist Party headquarters, and seized documents...
Meanwhile last week the general subject of Soviet church-going was angrily aired at a Communist gathering in Yaroslavl, northeast of Moscow. Speakers cited Soviet statistics to prove that still regular churchgoers in Russia today are: 12% of young peasant women and 1% of young peasant men; 26% of middle-aged peasant women and 3% of their men; 48% of elderly peasant women and 14% of their men. Because of the time these people "waste" in church, declared Communist zealots at Yaroslavl, the Soviet harvest for 1936 was 35% less than it would have been if they had worked during...
...excuse and the word "sesquicentennial," of unhappy memory since its association with the Philadelphia Fair of 1926, has been studiously avoided in the publicity. To give New York's Fair elbow room, the Fair Corporation and the City of New York chose a site about 18 minutes northeast of Manhattan on a tidal wasteland outside Flushing, L. I. It happens to be a place where General Washington once complained of the mosquitoes...