Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...movement to obtain a sympathetic appreciation for American literature has spread to every part of this country. Now, into this fight to gain recognition for the literary products of the American continent, comes a new development: the study of the literature of the Spanish-American nations beyond our southern border...
...catechized for a lack of catholicity in its disbursements. Some items on the Ickes report: for Howard University, $2,294,000; for geological surveys, $4,497,000; for plant industry and quarantine, $6,000,000; for the Alaska Road Commission, $1,596,000; for surveying the U. S.-Mexican border, $4,734,500. In other years, these and such expenditures as PWA made for the lighthouse service, immigration service, public health service, Army and Navy would have gone to swell the regular budget, which President Roosevelt is at great pains to keep within tight bounds...
...Belgium, dodging the expense for over a year, last week decided abruptly to continue across her own territory, right up to the North Sea, the "Maginot Wall" of steel and concrete pillboxes which guards France from the Swiss border to Luxembourg...
Lieut. Frank K. Johnson of the Chicago police and Laurence Ryan of the State's Attorney's office had gone to Toronto to bring Martin Insull back to U. S. justice. At 3 a. m. on their return trip their train rolled across the U. S.-Canadian border and came to a stop in Detroit. U. S. Immigration Inspector Joseph Als, going through the cars, roused 64-year-old Martin Insull from sleep. Was he a U. S. citizen? No, he was a British citizen who had resided 40 years in the U. S. How long...
...story of "Madame Spy" harks back to those hectic days of 1915 on the German-Austrian-Russian border, when all of Europe was aflame. What happens to a beautiful Russian girl who sacrifices everything to serve her country in the only way she knew how and the cross-roads she comes to when love crosses her path forms the plot of the picture. The cast includes Fay Wray, Nils Asther, Edward, Arnold, Noah Beery, John Miljan, Vince Barnett and Rollo Lloyd...