Word: teas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's technique of entertaining potent guests in the presence of others to preclude political gossip was again exhibited when J. Pierpont Morgan and U. S. Steel's Myron C. Taylor were White House tea guests. At dinner two evenings previously, the President had entertained Bernard Mannes Baruch, a onetime adviser whom he had not seen since July. The result of a clever design of happy coincidences, these visits had the effect of assuring the nation's businessmen that although Franklin Roosevelt might be pursuing a highly experimental monetary policy, he still was breaking bread with important...
Since Fukien is only 150 miles from Japan's great tea & camphor island of Formosa the ugly possibility of Japanese intervention loomed, should the new "Government" grow obstreperous. Chances of this were good. Adjoining Fukien on the west is "China's Soviet Sore Spot" (TIME, April 27, 1931), pululating with Chinese Communist generals. Should they enter into friendly relations with Fukien they would have for the first time a direct and easy access to the sea. Ominous seemed the fact that the Foreign Minister of the Fukien Government is notorious Chen Yu-jen (Eugene Chen), long the Communistically...
...China Tea Race...
...skipper of the Black gauntlet had never won the long race home from China to London, the coveted prize of the China tea fleet, though he had come as near as nothing to it; this voyage he swore he would do it. And he was going strong, with good winds, when one foggy night a steamer rammed him. Only one boatload got away before the Blackganntlet sank. Nearest port was at Fayal in the Azores, 700 miles away; Officer Trewsbury thought they had a fair chance of making it till he discovered how much of their boat's stores...
...CASE OF COLONEL MARCHAND- E. C. R. Lorac-Macanlay ($2). The Colonel, a "womanizer." is dead after tea with a redhead. Pearls, a bastard and a decomposed cat hang the miscreant...