Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor: Mr. President, I hope you enjoyed your trip up the Coast...
Also: how did it happen that a U. S. Coast Guard boat was in European waters...
...vowing that unless M. Blum does reverse his policy he will face a general strike in France. 'Meanwhile French parties of the Right raised a great howl because Spaniards who were driven from Irun by the victorious Whites last week were permitted to enter France on the Atlantic coast and put aboard "sealed trains" which soon delivered these Reds back into Spain at the other end of the Pyrenees on the Mediterranean coast at anarchist Barcelona. The Blum Cabinet, striving to maintain its precariously neutral position, explained that these Reds were only receiving the customary humane treatment accorded refugees...
...continuously since 1852. Half the present population (10,700) of Cayenne, capital of French Guiana, are convicts. Many thousands merely live in unbarred exile. Only a handful of the most desperate prisoners are actually confined on Devil's Island, one of the three "Safety Islands" off the Guiana Coast. Devil's Island's fame originated largely from the fact that it was there that Capt. Alfred Dreyfus was imprisoned for four and one-half years. Since the days of Dreyfus, interest in Guiana and the plight of its jungle-bound, fever-ridden convicts has never diminished...
Brand new in the East, commercial broadcasts of football games have long been standard practice in the West. There Associated Oil Co. ("Let's Get Associated") has broadcast Pacific Coast Conference football for ten seasons. Preparing for its eleventh, in which it will pay about $100,000 for around 100 games, Associated will send its 22 broadcasters to a two-day meeting at San Francisco. Pacific Coast Conference Football Supervisor Herb Dana will explain the new rules, coaches their new plays. The Southwest Conference takes in a minimum of $14,000 a season and $500 for each game broadcast...