Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...once they began to summon witnesses from along the Mexican border. The investigation was going to open by attacking the Attorney General on the grounds that he had not interfered with oil companies who fostered revolutions in Mexico...
...Humanite, Paris Communist journal, pointed out as an example that the Longwy Steel Works, near the Franco-Belgo-Luxembourg border, claimed 447,000,000 francs indemnity and received 369,000,000 francs, or nine times the capital of the company in 1914† Originally, continued the journal, the indemnity had been fixed at 250,000,000 francs...
...which d'Annunzio immortalized for Italians, and there cannot be any doubt that the Fascist Leader has achieved his greatest diplomatic triumph. Not only has Italy gained Fiume, but a counter-balance to French influence in Central Europe and, by the treaty of friendship, security on her eastern border...
Meanwhile Secretary Hughes prevailed on acting Governor Davidson of Texas to permit Mexican Government troops to traverse part of Texas in passing from one field of operations against the Rebels to another. The ticklishness of the situation is that Americans in Mexico or along the border may suffer if the ire of either faction is aroused. So far Mr. Hughes has supported the recognized Obregon Government; it is impossible to say how long the policy may be continued without arousing the active enmity of the Rebels...
Similar permission has been extended in the past, the last occasion being in October, 1915, and again in November, 1915, when the de facto Government of Mexico, headed by Mr. Carranza, was allowed to transport Mexican troops from the Texas border through the United States to the State of Sonora, Mexico, where American lives and property were in serious danger from the operations of Mexican revolutionary bands...