Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party the delegates did not attend was the dedication, week before the conference opened, of a 3,000-acre International Peace Garden in the Turtle Mountains of North Dakota and Manitoba. The Peace Garden is at the centre of the U. S.-Canada border, 32 mi. northeast of Bottineau, N. Dak. Half of it is in the U. S., half in Canada. President Hoover and Governor General Lord Bessborough sent greetings. Some 50,000 people raised their hands, solemnly swore: "To God in His Glory, we two nations dedicate this garden, and pledge ourselves that as long as men shall...
...finger-shaped Lake Garda on the Lombardy border one day last week Lieut. Neri climbed into his seaplane, flashed around & around the measured course. Electric timing cameras caught him at 430 m.p.h. as he entered his last lap. Then, with an official world record within a few miles of his grasp, Lieut. Nerfs plane shot askew of its course. One of the flippers had been wrenched from its tail. "Death Cheat" Neri kept his ship in control, landed safely...
Credit for the B. E. F.'s good behavior went principally to 34-year-old Walter W. Waters, originator of the Washington march, who was selected last week as the B. E. F.'s commander-in-chief. Tall, lean, sunburned, Waters first saw service on the Mexican border. Then he went overseas as a sergeant for nearly two years with the 146th Field Artillery. Mustered out, he married a blonde slip of a girl from Valparaiso, Ind., took her to Oregon where he worked as superintendent of a canning factory, had a house...
Alabama trucked 190 marchers from Louisiana over the Georgia border...
...Gott im Himmel!" he growled. "Everywhere the people of Manchuria are expecting Hell to break loose. The Chinese forces obviously are under foreign direction [presumably Russian]. Japanese occupation of the Chinese Eastern Railway right up to the Soviet border is inevitable...