Word: border
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young veterans materialized to balk the "kingmakers" of the old guard in their efforts to elect a national commander. The kingmakers' choice for 1948 was James F. O'Neil, police chief of Manchester, N.H. (pop. 77,685), a greying, 49-year-old veteran of the Mexican Border campaign and of World War I. O'Neil, a onetime newspaperman and a Republican, also saw action in the South Pacific during World War II as a civilian assistant to John L. Sullivan, then Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air. He was elected national commander-a post which pays...
...Moldavian border, 180 miles northeast of Bucharest, Rumanian troops were exchanging shots with Russians. But suddenly the Rumanians turned their guns on the Germans, and Hitler's largely Rumanian-manned southern flank gave way to a Red Army romp. Behind the historic switch was an historic conversation-of the sort novelists spend agonized years trying to reconstruct. But this dialogue had been carefully recorded on a talking disc by a boyish, gadget-loving King, and seldom had the most imaginative of novelists equaled it. Last week, as Rumania celebrated the third anniversary of Aug. 23, TIME Correspondent Robert...
...many a Canadian, life south of the border looked better than it had since the booming '20s. In the first six months of 1947, 21,000 Canadians, more than in all 1946, picked up permanent U.S. residence visas and headed south...
...Greece last week (see FOREIGN NEWS) threw its reflection across the Security Council table at Lake Success. Those who asked "How much good is U.N. in a showdown?" might soon have an answer. Russia's Gromyko had vetoed the mild U.S. resolution to set up a two-year border watch there. He threatened now to veto every other scheme the Council could invent to fasten the blame where it belonged-on Greece's Sovietsupported Balkan neighbors. What, then, could...
Professionally, it was an attractive offer and a big step up. Bespectacled, talkative Dr. Moon jumped at the chance. He went to McMasters across the border and de livered one lecture...