Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bulgaria and Turkey are laying serious and singularly similar charges at each other's doors. Each accuses the other of massing troops on the Macedonian border and contemplating acquisition because of the internal turmoil in Greece. With loyal and rebel forces quite evenly matched, although the former is dominant on land and the latter is superior at sea, the probability that they both have designs on war-ridden Greece amounts almost to a certainty...
...Toronto's Royal York Hotel last week American shoe retailers from both sides of the border conventioned. Said Chicago Retailer O. J. McClure: "I hope you have no shoe salespeople in Canada who mispronounce names, call customers 'dearie,' hum and stare and make customers nervous...
...decided it was tired of Soapy and his kind, he moved on again, this time to Mexico, where he almost sold old Porfirio Díaz the services of a Mexican Foreign Legion, which Soapy, for a good round sum, was to organize among the riff-raff of the border...
Manchukuan and Mongolian border guards were still sniping at each other ineffectively last week (TIME, Feb. n & 18) when precise Japanese army headquarters at Mukden suddenly realized that nobody was quite certain what all the shooting was for. Troubles of the past few weeks were supposed to be caused by a border dispute, but since the district between the Manchukuan province of Hsingan and Outer Mongolia has never been accurately surveyed, even Japanese maps never put the border in exactly the same place in any two editions...
...some embarrassment the Chief of the Mongol Affairs Department of the Manchukuan Government, left Hailar last week for the great and little known lake of Bor Nor. With him he took a whole battalion of surveyors to establish 28 observation posts along the border, rectify the present "typographical errors" that show the Mongol border passing sometimes through the lake, sometimes around...