Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week fortune favored the Leftists. In the south, Leftists got under way an offensive which made progress toward cutting Rightist lines of communication between Seville-Cordoba and the north. In the north another Leftist offensive thrust forward to cut a rail line connecting Rightist Spain with the French border, the Saragossa-Huesca railway. Meanwhile Leftists sent a heavy barrage of over 1,000 shells into Toledo, completely wrecking a big Rightist munitions plant...
...Also in prison last week, not in Rightist Spain, but in France, lodged barrel-chested Major Julian Troncoso, Commandant of Irún, Franco agent on the French-Spanish border. Arrested for alleged connection with the subnapping episode fortnight ago (TIME, Sept. 27), and the terrorist activities of a Rightist French secret society, Les Cagoulards (the Hooded Men) Major Troncoso boasted that Franco would retaliate with arrests of French consuls in his territory. Franco threatened the San Sebastián French consul with arrest, then capitulated, was reported to have booted out Major Troncoso as his Irún agent...
Last week U. S. booksellers might well have lined their window-displays with a border of shamrocks. Novelist-of-the-week was Liam O'Flaherty (see col. 3); and for the first time since the U. S. publication of Ulysses (1934), famed James Joyce had brought out a book...
...more products than any other in Canada is fabulous Ontario-chiefly famed abroad for the Dionne Quintuplets. It is exactly 1,000 miles long by 1,050 miles wide-so big that the five States of New York, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota string the length of its southern border. Three years ago strapping, vigorous Ontario started taking the orders of a chubby, double-chinned, deep-dimpled, dynamic man she calls "Mitch." Two years ago he left her suddenly for Florida, announcing "I will retire from public life! There is no chance of my changing my mind." However, when...
...week's end Nicaragua retorted by banning an airmail stamp (allegedly showing the disputed border strip) issued by the Honduran Government in 1935. The decree warned that parcels and mail bearing the stamp would be returned to the place of origin...