Word: oriented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orient two months ago went two potent newspapermen, friends but rivals. One was Kent Cooper, general manager of Associated Press; the other, Roy Wilson Howard, chairman of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, editor of the New York World-Telegram and onetime president of the Scripps-founded United Press. Arriving in Tokyo together, AP's Cooper and UP's Howard were wined and dined by all bigwigs from Prince Tokugawa down. After that Mr. Cooper visited Osaka. Shanghai, Hongkong. Mr. Howard flew in a military plane to Manchuria, interviewed Japanese and Chinese generals...
Retired. Dr. Shailer Mathews, for 25 years dean of Chicago University's Divinity School, on his 70th birthday. Professor at the Divinity School since 1894, he calls creeds and doctrines so much "fussiness." He will go to the Orient to preach...
Just above the northwest corner of the U. S., at an editorial desk from which he peers across the Pacific into the Orient, across North America at Europe, and across the years into the Future, an earnest, tireless idealist named Robert James Cromie publishes the Vancouver Sun, dominant daily of western Canada. Publisher Cromie is even more widely known than his newspaper. As a reporter, he takes the world for his beat, traveling all over it frequently, meeting and observing its famed persons and places. When he returns home he writes editorials for his paper, ambitious in conception, abounding...
...north Pacific section; C. E. Perkins '04 of Santa Barbara, California for the south Pacific section; S. B. Trainer '04 of Toronto, Ontario, for the Canadian section; J. H. Hyde '98 of Paris, France, for the European section; and F. S. Chien '10 of Pieping, China for the Orient...
...same day on Mount Scifarello in Calabria 400 mi. to the south, rangers of the Fascist Forest Militia ended a search for a French Air-Orient liner which disappeared last fortnight en route from Corfu, Greece to Rome. The rangers found two men and a woman, nearly dead of cold, huddled in the snow-covered wreckage of the plane which also sheltered the bodies of the two pilots, three other passengers...