Word: seaboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army and Navy went ahead with plans for a mock "attack" on the Atlantic seaboard by a large "raiding fleet," to be repelled by planes and submarines...
Walker Evans, 35, and Edward Weston, 52, were born in St. Louis and Highland Park, Ill., respectively, but Evans went east and Weston went west. Like most artists of his generation, Evans got as far east as Paris. He returned to photograph life on the eastern seaboard with solitary detachment, a refined eye and a sharp sense of history. Meanwhile, Weston was in business as a portrait photographer in Glendale, San Francisco and finally in Carmel, California. Among professionals his off-hour studies of dunes, shells and vegetables became noted for their miraculous clarity. In 1936 he won the first...
...China" that foreigners have known since 1927, when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek took over the Government, was the China of the seaboard provinces. Most of it is now ruled by Japanese arms. Its capital, Nanking, centre of the web of roads, railways and airlines which Chiang Kai-shek spun across the map of China, fell to the Japanese a year ago last week. New China moved westward to Hankow and carried on. Two months ago advancing Japanese forces straddled both ends of the vital Canton-Hankow railway (completed in 1936) which skirted the western frontier of Chiang's original...
Three days of rain and bird-walking weather last week gave the battered seaboard towns of Loyalist Spain their first respite in three weeks from incessant, systematic bombings by Insurgent Generalissimo Franco's airplanes. Late last month, infuriated by the refusal of Britain and France to grant him belligerent rights. Franco listed 100 Loyalist towns and 58 villages as "legitimate objectives." announced that they would be ceaselessly bombed in ''retaliation." A fleet of Italian Savoia and German Junkers bombing planes, based at Majorca, was ordered to blast the towns in shifts. At last reports they had dumped...
Addressing the one-day emergency conference of the seaboard region of the United Palestine appeal, King caustically referred to "so-called 'Christian' nations" which permit Jewish persecution and he predicted that Poland soon may inaugurate a vigorous anti-Jewish drive