Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...southern Rhine. Last week Palatinate Commissioner Birker issued an order freezing all postal savings and bank accounts of Jews in the province until their outstanding debts had been paid. This was explained as a move to prevent a wholesale dodging of obligations by a Jewish hegira over the French Border...
ANDREW JACKSON, THE BORDER CAPTAIN-Marquis James- Bobbs-Merrill...
...Nance Garner. Big, white-mopped Representative Rainey, 72, considered himself "in line" for the job because he had been majority floor leader in the 72nd House (TIME, Dec. 19). Tennessee's Joseph Wellington Byrns, 63, lank, hollow-eyed chairman of the Appropriations Committee, was put forward as a border compromise between North and South. Alabama's John McDuffie, 49, popular party "whip" and loyal Garner friend, was the conservative South's man to perpetuate the outgoing Speaker's regime...
...Pedro, Calif., cash became more plentiful when U. S. paymasters distributed $500,000 pay to the 30,000 men and officers of the U. S. fleet. At Calexico silver pesos from over the border supplemented the currency available. In Michigan, Canadian money helped out. Elsewhere street car tickets and telephone slugs were...
Even as Dr. Soong spoke "the enemy" were pouring some 50,000 mixed Japanese and Manchukuoan troops across the frontier of Jehol. The Chinese claimed to have taken Chinchow, Japanese concentration point between Shanhaikwan and Mukden. Heavy Japanese fire began at Chaoyang near the border. But it will be many weeks before they can scale the mountain passes (defended by 150,000 Chinese) leading to Chengteh...