Word: orientals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Within the next six months, Nippon Yusen Kaisha will have six big fast new freighters plying between Manhattan arid the Orient. At Havre, the French Line is busy prettifying the launched Normandie for her queenship of the seas next summer. But far the busiest shipyards in the world are the British. Next month Her Majesty Queen Mary will travel north to the Clyde there to launch a 73,000-ton monster which in 1936 will take away the Normandie's crown of size. And the name which Queen Mary will cry as she whangs the bottle, will not be Britannia...
Japanese who assassinate their Premier, always from the most patriotic motives, now enjoy such popular éclat that the Orient marveled last week at the excessive modesty with which No. 1 Assassin Konichi Nakaoka emigrated from Japan to the wilds of her vassal state Manchukuo...
...towers still standing (TIME. March 19). At present Author Malraux lives in Paris, working for the publishing house of Gallimard. His first book (Limes en Papier} written when he was 20. was poetic prose. His five subsequent books have all been based on his experience in the Orient. One of them. The Conquerors, was translated, published in the U. S. (1929). Restless. fair-skinned, well-built, with large sad grey eyes that stare intensely past the person he is talking to, Andre Malraux loves to talk, but never about himself. Says his friend and translator Haakon Chevalier, after sitting...
...matter of national policy, President Hoover sent the Fleet to the Pacific when war loomed in the Orient three years ago. The Navy was glad to go, not because it was itching for a fight, but because the Fleet trains better on the Pacific where the climate is milder and exercise grounds superior. Also for training purposes the Navy prefers to keep the Scouting and Battle Forces together no matter where they are based. No football coach works the backfield out on one field, the line on another. During the remainder of the Hoover regime the Fleet was kept...
...provincial president and a founder of the University of Utrecht. She has worked among girls for 25 years. Unsalaried, she presides over committee meetings and staff work in Geneva, travels about the world visiting national associations. Arrived in the U. S. after a 15-month tour of the Orient and Australia, Miss van Wyck declared last week that its Y. W. C. A. branches are the strongest in the world, that Germany's were a good second until Nazified. She told Y. W. C. A. workers in Philadelphia that, with strife threatening the world, their responsibilities are greater than...