Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed where she had taken dictation from Count Rene when he worked in their office. Sailing for Paris, she got a job with Count René before proceeding to surprise her parents. Last week she arrived at Schoenberg, a tiny German customs depot on the Saar border and, as usual, said what she conscientiously thinks...
Born in Nashville. Col. Andrews graduated from "The Point'' with the Class of 1906, saw cavalry service on the Mexican border, sought transfer to the Air Corps to achieve faster promotion. His wife, the daughter of his battalion commander, made him. withdraw his application before she would marry him. Not until the U. S. entered the World War did Cavalryman Andrews get his transfer to the Air Corps. An able military pilot, he was lately brought to Washington for General Staff duty after a long term as commanding officer at Selfridge Field, Mich...
Scene. Flemington is the seat of Hunterdon County, on New Jersey's western border. A meticulously neat, elm-shaded town of nearly 3,000, it serves as a trading centre for a rich old agricultural community. About ten miles to the southeast is Sourland Mountain, where the child was kidnapped...
...Trinity I, as to whose soldiers attacked first at Ualual in eastern Africa (TIME, Dec. 24). Ethiopia sent to the League disconcerting testimony from a British pasturage commissioner on the spot that the Italians had behaved in a manner highly "provocative." Fearing another clash on Ethiopia's border, the Abyssinians last week zealously polished their Japanese arms. Great hero was white-robed Chief Ghogoli who had rallied his dusky horsemen at Ualual so smartly that they were able to fight it out for three days and kill some 30 Italians, with the loss of only 110 Ethiopians...
...Author. Onetime guest at Allied headquarters (1915), onetime cavalry major on the Mexican border (1916-17), onetime aide on General Pershing's A. E. F. staff and artillery officer in the line, Major Robert Rutherford Mc-Cormick emerged from the War with a D. S. M., a colonelcy and decided opinions about warfare. Six feet four. 200-lbs.. 54, Tribune Publisher McCormick is variously called dynamic and domineering. For 25 years, in his leisure moments, he has mulled over the "neglected" figure of his hero, Grant, gradually got his militant musings on paper...