Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indefensible geographic situation. Japan in 1872 sent to the United States and Europe the important Iwakura Embassy which presented the following year an epoch-making report on Japanese policy in the modern world. It recommended that (1) Japan modernize her institutions; (2) that she arm herself in the western fashion; and (3) that she await the pre-occupation of the Western powers to use her now armament...
...United Air Lines paid $90,000 to Boeing Aircraft Co. for a three-engined, 18 passenger airliner. The 130-m.p.h. mahogany trimmed craft became U.A.L.'s western flagship. For 650,000 miles she flew with but one forced landing, without injury to any of her passengers. Out of service since 1933 because she was too slow, NC-228-M was sold fortnight ago to United Maintenance Mechanic Kurt Springer for $400. She will now resume service, this time as a roadside diner, with a lunch counter down her middle...
Opening with Katie Roche by Teresa Deevy, a U. S. premiere, the Manhattan repertory includes standbys like O'Casey's Plough and the Stars, Juno and the Paycock, Synge's Playboy of the Western World, new items like Cormac O'Daly's The Silver Jubilee, George Shiels's The Passing...
Died. Edgar Watson ("Ed") Howe, 84, eternally disgruntled Kansas editor; of old age and paralysis; in Atchison, Kans. Since he started the Atchison Globe in 1877, Editor Howe framed catchy, pungent aphorisms about those world figures and affairs that did not conform to his Middle Western philosophy of industry, honesty, temperance and thrift; became the kindly, grouchy "Sage of Potato Hill." In 1911 he sold the Globe to his staff, continued to champion the cause of the common people through the unique E. W. Howe's Monthly...
Plans for a tour of concerts during Christmas vacation this year point to a Western trip ending in Chicago, or a trip through the South. The second evening of trials will take place tonight at 7:30 in Phillips Brooks House...