Word: orients
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their underlings opened the morning mail to find printed notes threatening fires. Factory after factory burned. Lumber yards, stacked high with fir and cedar from Washington's forests, became kindling pyres. A boxcar, filled with new Buicks specially built with right-hand drives for shipment to the Orient, became a pile of ashes and twisted steel. Seattle's nominally low 60? per capita fire loss zoomed to $1.40 in four years...
...been made infinitely easier than that of their predecessors. A prime source of diplomatic boondoggling has been removed. For since Saito has been in the U. S., his great & good friend cocky Japanese Foreign Minister Koki Hirota has torn the mask off Japan's "mission in the Orient," has come out flatly and finally for Asia for the Asiatics, i. e. the Japanese. An illustration of how neatly this mission was progressing was at hand last week. After months of negotiation, Foreign Minister Hirota was about to honor China for its "cooperation" with Japanese aims by elevating Minister Akira...
...silver prices last week sailed toward Heaven, China grew desperate. Finance Minister Kung appealed to all patriotic Chinese to keep their silver at home. Chinese Ambassador Sze wrung his hands on the steps of the State Department in Washington: the U. S. was ruining its one friend in the Orient...
...project in its Pacific international affairs activity, Phillips Brooks House is offering its services for students who desire to travel in the Orient...
Chances to do so may be seriously curtailed in the near future, Professor Hopper warned and advised the Orient as a place for voyaging, since in that direction may lie America's future