Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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French-speaking, Negro Haiti with an area of 10,204 sq. mi. has a population (2,550,000) almost twice that of Spanish-speaking, mainly Mestizo Dominican Republic, area 19,332 sq. mi. For years, overcrowded Haitians have been slipping over the border, squatting on Dominican land. Fortnight ago the border villages blazed with fire and the banging of musketry. When the smoke cleared, over 300 were dead on Dominican soil, mostly Haitian squatters, their wives and children. Nervous authorities in both countries feared reprisals...
...dangerous trail led him to death's door and over the Mexican border, to rescue his enemy; when at last it doubled home, Brandon came halfway to meet him, was willing to go further than that to keep her "blue-bellied Yank" for good...
...midst of the Pyrenees only 15 mi. south of the French border lies the town of Jaca, which has been in Rightist hands for the past 15 months. Furiously soldiers were digging in Jaca last week, building pill boxes, establishing munition dumps. After nearly a week's methodical advance, Leftist troops were less than two miles away, and Jaca is a key point on one of the three railroads from France into Spain...
...whether to sell out. The Nanking troops had not come fresh and forward into Shantung from Central China but were retreating into it last week from the North, badly disorganized by the Japanese punishment they have taken. At latest dispatches Nippon's advancing war machine had crossed the border into Shantung, and War Lord Han was racked by a dilemma in which he stood to lose one of China's richest plums, a flourishing province worth at least $20,000,000 yearly to even a Governor reputed "honest" like...
With his Pulitzer-Prizewinning biography of Sam Houston (The Raven) and the first volume of a biography on Andrew Jackson (Andrew Jackson: The Border Captain), Marquis James has made a name for himself as one of the few conscientious U. S. historians whose books give the historical novelists a run for their money. Last week, in his concluding volume on Andrew Jackson, Author James offers a frankly-hinted explanation: ''Many good writers," he avers, "who now and again dash showily into the biographical lists are careless, lazy and shallow about their research, whereas most of the honest...