Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Loyalist Ambassador Pablo de Azcarate was called to the Foreign Office and handed his walking papers. In Paris Loyalist President Manuel Azańa left the Spanish Embassy, where he had lived since the fall of Catalonia, and took a train for the village of Collonges, on the Swiss border, where he expects to live in exile. He had left behind his resignation, to be made public at an "opportune moment." As a last gesture of international courtesy a lone French Foreign Office underling saw Don Manuel...
Quick-witted General Lister then ordered his troops to fill pockets and bags with the precious loot and to carry it across the French border to the Loyalist Consulate at Perpignan. Three trucks were thus emptied. No time remained, however, and the other six were dynamited...
More extraordinary was the announcement of fiery Rev. Pablo Delgado, a publicity-seeking Mexican preacher and onetime Carranzista who has been holding forth in Texas border towns since he was exiled from Mexico in 1920. He said he would campaign for the Presidency of Mexico exclusively on U. S. soil. Explained Preacher Delgado: "Mexican politics are controlled by opinion in the United States." His platform: return the expropriated oil lands to their onetime U. S. and British holders...
Public health officers were amazed when George W. Leadbetter, State Health Commissioner of Maine, reported that there were 5,000 cases of scurvy among the lumberjacks and farmers of Aroostook County, on the northern border of the State. Reason : thousands of Aroostookians are unemployed, with no money to buy lemons or oranges, and not many of them had taken the trouble to grow and can tomatoes, which are especially rich in Vitamin...
...last week any German motorist could drive from the Baltic Sea at Travemünde to Salzburg, at the foot of the Alps, without slowing for cross traffic or tooting his horn for an intersection. With almost the same ease, he could start at Cologne, near the Belgian border, zip past Berlin and wind up at the Polish frontier...