Word: ported
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could be sure they were hearing thunder on the Left, sure that Stalin was going to back China, panic-stricken lest at any hour Soviet air squadrons from Vladivostok appear and bomb Tokyo with no preliminary declaration of war. Japan played just that dirty trick on Tsar Nicholas at Port Arthur. Why should not Dictator Stalin play it now in Russian revenge on Japan...
...every day does a President of the U. S. set foot on Trinidad. Until last week, in fact, no U. S. President ever did so. Yet on the morning of Franklin Roosevelt's arrival at Port of Spain neither was he mentioned on the front page of any local paper nor was he the chief topic of conversation among the islanders. Trinidaddies that day were thinking and talking about their ex-King and Mrs. Simpson...
Newhaven: Just as the cheap and therefore inconspicuous night boat from this port to France is about to sail, Mrs. Simpson arrives in the Buick the King gave her, accompanied by his bodyguard, a secretary and chauffeur. In a private cabin she tosses for four hours on a medium rough crossing. French police shoot her baggage through the customs unopened. The Buick roars away and at 3:30 a. m. it brings Mrs. Simpson to Rouen for the night. She telephones King Edward who has just had another night session with Mr. Baldwin, this time at the snuggery, from which...
...into Tsingtao piled 600 more Japanese marines. When their commander made secret demands which local Chinese officials pluckily rejected as "unreasonable and fantastic," Japanese war boats rushed into port to menace Tsingtao further with their big guns. The Japanese marines moved forward to seize the city's water works, then moved back as 3,000 Chinese troops approached. Sudden freezing weather came and 36,000 locked-out Chinese millworkers shivered, railing at the warm Japanese millowners...
Died. Charles Leslie Thrasher, 47, magazine illustrator famed for his quaint Saturday Evening Post covers; of pneumonia contracted after he was overcome by smoke in a fire which razed his home at Oldfield Village, N. Y.; in Port Jefferson...