Word: orients
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...restrained protestations, Russia, in the last few days has once again attracted world-attention to the aggrandizement activities of the cocky Nipponese in the Orient. The Muscovites claim that Japan is attempting to scuttle away with their Chinese Eastern Railway, and informally Tokio rather complacently admits complicity with such schemes. As this news climbs to more important levels on the front pages of the dailies, militarists are gleefully clapping their hands at the prospects of a first-class imbroglio, although the possibilities of the scare reaching war proportions seem very vague indeed...
...Deterding, Director General of Royal Dutch-Shell. As far as the British Government is concerned, Europe's most useful oil tycoon is brisk, smooth-faced Sir John Cadman, chairman of Anglo-Persian Oil Co., Ltd., and an associate of Sir Henri's in distributing oil in the Orient...
...ordinary commodity is silver. To half the world's population (chiefly the Orient) it represents money and wealth. To the other half of the world it is merely a useful metal like copper or nickel. The reason that the price of silver fell from over 50? in 1929 to around 25? at the first of this year is partly that some countries such as Russia and French Indo-China have melted up part of their silver money and sold it; partly it is that less silverware is being made...
...want to go back to Michigan, To dear Ann Arbor town, Back to Joe's and The Orient...
...been padlocked for two years and The Orient is now a poolroom for town loafers. Michiganders will have to walk three blocks west to drink their beer: an Ann Arbor ordinance forbids liquor-selling on the campus side of Division Street. Law enforcement is strict in Washtenaw County; students are accustomed to slip over to farmhouse speakeasies in Wayne County. The Mill, Dad's and Red and Bill's now fear a loss of trade...