Word: orientation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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East, published in Shanghai by the Shanghai Post-Mercury Co., edited by Joseph Coughlin who used to run the Carmel, Calif. Carmelite, is the "Newsweekly of the Orient." It copies TIME'S makeup, runs a brief department called "The Week in Miniature" as well as a portrait on the cover...
...became a teacher, then a principal, then president of Iowa's State Agricultural College. With no newspaper experience he bought and edited the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, made money on the side from mines, steel mills, realty. Wiped out in the panic of 1893, he went to the Orient to recoup, spotted a chance in Korea where rich ore deposits were being crushed by hand, got concessions, sent for U. S. machinery. First to grow cotton in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, he unfolded one evening at the White House dinner table a glowing description of African big-game hunting which...
...paramount purposes of introducing the series of lectures, receptions, and speeches scheduled for incoming students within the next three days was to acquaint them with the policies and mechanical routine of the College, and to let them orient themselves before a horde of dissolute upperclassmen bore down to disturb the pre-college peace. Towards accomplishing this purpose, the meetings have been an assistance...
Edward C. Carter, secretary of the American Council of the Institute, was elected to the newly created post of Secretary General, to spend his days traveling the Orient coordinating all the various groups. His headquarters: Honolulu. Next conference: in 1935 in Baguio, Philippine summer capital...
...support the market. It served also as a club over the conference of wheat-producing nations which met again this week in London to try to agree on crop restriction. What one nation calls "subsidizing exports" other nations call "dumping." He proposed, however, to dump wheat in the Orient, thereby cutting into the exports of Canada and Australia to those markets. Not according to the Golden Rule was Secretary Wallace's dumping threat, for the U. S. not only has a law against foreigners dumping in the U. S., but even when the Secretary made his announcement the Treasury...