Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fled across the invisible line which divides Nogales, Sonora, from Nogales, Ariz. The rebel Commander-in-chief, General Jose Gonzalo Escobar, was deserted by the last 1,000 of his original army of 20,000 men and vanished as a hunted fugitive into the mountains along the U. S. border. Without the need of striking a final blow, bull-necked General and War Minister Calles occupied Hermosillo, the capital of Sonora...
Editor's Note: The "unmixed blessing of a single native tradition in architecture" is just as surprising information as is the proposed Gothic invasion. A cursory glance at the Grays quadrangle corrects the first statement; the second must give way to the indisputable Georgian triumphs that are soon to border the Charles...
...Supreme Court set aside the Jay Treaty of 1794-on the ground that the treaty had died in the War of 1812-and declared that aliens resident in Canada or naturalized Canadians could not under the 1924 U. S. Immigration Act commute across the U. S. border to daily work. Minister Massey had protested to the U. S. on this interpretation, originally made by the Labor Department, on the ground that it goes behind Canada's citizenship laws, discriminates between native and foreign-born citizens of the Dominion. The Supreme Court's decision immediately barred some 600 Canadian...
Sulphate Fog. Just within Canada on the western border is a copper plant which belches forth a fog of copper sulphate, destructive to orchards in the State of Washington for miles around. Washington, D. C., has, so far unsuccessfully, attempted to dispel this sulphate fog. but control over the winds seems the solution...
...stalwart Negro buck private John Finezee appeared on the front page of all U. S. papers. Private Finezee was a member of a cavalry patrol of the famed 10th U. S. Cavalry, which discovered a hidden cache of hand grenades that the rebels were attempting to smuggle across the border into Mexico. The rebels appearing a few minutes later to claim their bombs, a brush ensued, in the course of which Private Finezee received a bullet in the chest. Painfully, but not seriously wounded, he law in an army hospital while papers headlined U. S. TROOPS FIRE ON MEXICANS...