Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clergyman named John Miller Dickey founded the first institution for the higher education of Negroes in the U. S., called it Ashmun Institute. Soon after it opened in Oxford in 1854, a mob of townspeople appeared at Dr. Dickey's home, threatened to shoo his students across the Maryland border into slavery. Dr. Dickey's stern face and commanding figure cowed the mob, carried the college through its first crisis. At the close of the Civil War the name was changed to Lincoln University. After that its crises were all financial...
...Bolivia, Dec. 18--Eighty thousand men were thrown into action today in the start of one of the bloodiest battles of the Gran Chaco border war when Paraguay launched her preliminary attack on the Bolivian field base of Villa Montes...
...Envious of Palestine's prosperity, the Syrian Government announced it would welcome Jewish immigrants who renounce Zionism, agree not to buy land near the Palestine border, and bring in enough capital to help revive Syria's sultry trade...
Buenos Aires, Nov. 30--Paraguayan forces massed tonight for a smashing week-end offensive along the western sector of the Gran Chaco border war with Bolivia in a desperate drive to end the hostilities which have kept South America in turmoil for three years. Bolivia's rich oil fields were threatened...
Asuncion, Paraguay, Nov. 19--A bold plan for "an invasion into Bolivian territory" was formulated by the Paraguayan high command tonight, elated by victory in the Gran Chaco border...