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Word: border (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cantonese nationalists failed in their attempt to unify the celestial empire because the people did not have a common fee against whom to unite. Only those along the coast really felt the oppression of the world powers. But now with the Japanese troops penetrating almost to the Russian border the Chinese all have a common enemy whose depredations are felt by them all. The recent statement of Marshall Chiang Kai-Shek, president of the Cantonese republic, promising to lead a united China with an army of 2,000,000 men against Japan is indicative. Just...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING | 11/27/1931 | See Source »

...extensor the naturally biased statements of publishers and producers without so much as casting a critical eye over them are guilty of furthering the designs of prejudiced prophets, it standards of taste are to be elevated to any appreciable degree, the duplicity involved in so playing about on the border-line between truth and falsehood must have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASELESS BALLYHOO | 11/19/1931 | See Source »

...reports of transfer of Red soldiers to the Manchurian border or to anywhere in Siberia are nonsense," said Klim. "Not a soldier, not a gun has been shifted to that region. Our future policy toward Japan will depend entirely upon the sincerity of Japan's desire to maintain neighborly relations with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-RUSSIA: Two War Lords | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

...Brinkley went to Del Rio, Tex. and began practice under a license which he had in that State.? Across the border in Villa Acuna, Mexico, he built a $350,000 station, obtained a license from the Mexican Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Goat Glands & Sunshine | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

...though his programs were broadcast from Mexico, Dr. Brinkley had not crossed the border. He did his broadcasting by remote control from a hotel room in Del Rio. He said he could broadcast from Milford by the same method, explained: "The Milford program would be merely a telephone conversation in the United States and not broadcast until it is in Mexico." The Mexican Department of Communications last week decided that the Villa Acuna station belonged to "a group composed entirely of Mexicans," that its erection was in compliance with the law, left the Department of Health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Goat Glands & Sunshine | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

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