Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long patient lines of frightened Chinese stood in front of the customs house at Nogales last week and tried to get into the U. S. Arizona jails all along the border were filled with them. Into San Francisco harbor came 49 Chinese merchants on the Panama steamer El Salvador. Their money was gone; they were gloomily resigned to returning to Hongkong and poverty...
...adjoining states of Sinaloa and Chihuahua issued similar edicts. Chinese grocers had no time to dispose of their property but fled in terror. The Mexican wholesale chain-store, Juan Lung-tain & Co. and Fong qui Co. lost over $1,000,000 each. Long lines of fugitives formed at the border...
...Huddleston has been immersed in various bodies of water more frequently and for longer periods than anyone else of her sex. Most protracted was her sojourn in a Coney Island swimming pool which lasted for 60 hr.. 2 min. Last fortnight, she visited Lake Tahoe, on the border of California and Nevada, farther north than San Francisco, where the altitude, almost 6,500 feet, makes it hard for a swimmer to inflate her lungs comfortably and where something in the icy, mountain spring water affects the membranes of the nose and causes choking. Mrs. Huddleston examined Lake Tahoe, decided...
...winning Enterprise last year. Skipper Aldrich was her navigator in the trials. He thinks her run against Yankee off Martha's Vineyard was "the greatest race of its kind ever sailed." In her races against Shamrock V. Skipper Vanderbilt sailed Enterprise but the Aldrich pennant, blue border and blue anchor on a white field, flew from her $40,000 mast. A better sailor than ex-Commodore Astor, Commodore Aldrich maintains no lavish steam yacht like the Nourmahal; his Wayfarer is a smaller but serviceable boat. Like ex-Commodore Vanderbilt, his favorite sport ashore is tennis. One of his brothers...
...guide on New Mexican bus tours. Teddy had come from poor but respectable parents to be an artist in the Southwest. They all met in Santa Fe, played together, thought it would be glorious to run away to Mexico. So they did. Just before they reached the border Teddy, the most grownup, turned the car, drove them grimly back to Santa Fe. Emily Hahn writes so well, puts her people through such lifelike paces, you keep wondering when she is going to tell you something worth listening to. But she never does...