Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last summer Boulder Dam advocates proposed that the U. S. settle its dispute with Mexico over the waters of the Colorado River (which empties 80 mi. below the border) by the purchase of Lower California. With the money she got from the sale, they contended, "Mexico could settle not only U. S. claims but also all her debts to Britain, France and every other country." Big Navy men, who have repeatedly charged that Japan covets Magdalena Bay on the Pacific coast of Lower California as a base from which to attack the U. S., warmed to any proposition which would...
...private performances in the Rogers Building tonight and tomorrow night "Honey Holler", by Keith Mackaye, will be presented for the first time in the Cambridge School of the Drama's maiden production. The play is a placid drama of unusual charm, using the Connecticut hills along the New York border as a back ground. The center inner stage in occupied by the set of a house about which the action will take place, but which is designed to open in two leaves permitting the audience to view the interior in the last...
...damp morning last week, ten U. S. Marines with a roll of telephone wire rode on mule-back along a narrow road under the shadow "of towering, jungle-clad mountains near the Honduras border. Their job was to repair a telephone wire that somebody had cut during the night, their only thought was to finish the job and get back to barracks before lunch. Near a straggling corn patch they found the broken end of the wire drooping from a pole. Though this was the most dangerous district in Nicaragua, the Marines had had no serious trouble for months...
Harvard's hockey team, proud possesor of six victories, two of them over Canadian teams, meets one of the sextets from across the border tonight in a return game when it tackles the Toronto team at the Boston Garden at 8.30 o'clock. The Crimson won the first tilt in the New York Garden during the Christmas recess by a 4 to 1 score...
...worked as a nurse, first at the front, later in hospitals. When the Revolution came Marie had met her second husband, Prince Putiatin. They were married in the midst of Red uproars. With him she outlasted the terrors of the winter and in 1918 they escaped over the Ukrainian border. She left her father a prisoner; it was with relief that she heard at last he had been shot, "without further torture...