Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...things that needed setting to rights, says flatly that King Alexander's Government is a grinding dictatorship, that Jugoslavian jails hold thousands of political prisoners, that if he had not been exceedingly circumspect he would have had no chance of getting the notes for his book across the border...
...nervous did Adamic finally become about Jugoslavian censorship that he decided to leave the country unexpectedly. Safely across the border with the notes for his book, he breathed more easily. Though he was glad to have seen the old country again, he was yet gladder that he did not have to live there. He feels sorry for Jugoslavians, thinks they are condemned to be cannon fodder at no distant date...
...highway, a handsome Colonial building on a spacious green houses minuscule Delaware's equally minuscule General Assembly. In the House there are 21 Democrats, 14 Republicans. The Republicans control the Senate of 17 by one vote. Because Dover is no more than 60 mi. from any adjoining State border, Delaware's 52 Legislators for the most part commute to work by automobile. One hundred and fifty other State officials and employes live in Dover all the time, pride themselves on the town's small but famed biggest factory, Richardson & Robbins Co. (canners of chickens and plum puddings...
...large car with a negro chauffeur sped a man and woman from California into Arizona. When it failed to stop at the border inspection station near Toprock, an irate motorcycle policeman chased it a mile down the road, waved it to the side of the road. He looked at the two passengers. A sheepish grin came over his face. He waved them on. At Holbrook, Ariz., stopping for the night, they registered as Robert Brown and Mary Jones, took rooms 12 & 17. Next morning as they paid their bill, Hotel Proprietor Joe Gerwitz looked at the woman in dark glasses...
...share the admiration for Bing Crosby which Miss Davies affects in this picture, it would be unthinkable for Williams' temptation to get the best of him. Miss Davies supplants Lili Yvonne as the lead in the Williams picture. When Temptress Yvonne whisks Crooner Williams away to a Mexican border saloon. Miss Davies pursues and persuades him to return. He is reeling slightly but still able to deliver one more tune, called "Our Big Love Scene...