Word: crossed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vinokurka Hills. This affray was on the Soviet-Siberian frontier nearly 1,000 miles east of the disputed Amur River islands. Comrade Litvinoff promptly handed a sharp warning to Ambassador Shigemitsu: "Soviet frontier troops have firm orders in no case to allow Japanese and Manchurian troops to cross Soviet frontiers, and upon their appearance on Soviet territory to drive them out with all means...
...safekeeping. The young Commissar falls in love with the Countess, kills himself so she can escape. The Countess and A. J. board a river boat for the border and it looks as though their troubles are ove r until the Countess falls ill. At the border, the American Red Cross enters the proceedings as deus ex machina. Marlene is popped into a sickbed. A. J. dodges one more firing squad, boards her hospital train as it pulls away from Russia...
...marked able President Watson as apt at least to consecrate an issue of Think to the Nazi Reich. They hoped he would speak up loudly in behalf of shipping some Kentucky gold to Germany, and they felt that as President of the I.C.C. he rated the new "Merit Cross" just created by Adolf Hitler and first bestowed on Benito Mussolini (TIME, June 14). Nazis Nos. 1, 2 and 3 (Hitler, Göring and Goebbels) turned out in Berlin to attend the first session of the I.C.C. and not only Mr. Watson but scores of other delegates gave the Nazi...
...FORTUNE'S Quarterly Surveys are conducted by a staff of 50 field workers who interview 5,000 citizens each quarter. The 5,000-person "sample" is a carefully gauged cross-section of the U. S., proportional to geographic divisions (e.g., 7% from the Pacific Coast), to rural v. urban population (e.g., 56% from cities, 44% from the country), to economic levels, sex, age, occupation, color, size of community. Only adults are interviewed. Results are believed to be accurate for the U. S. as a whole within a 2 % margin of error...
Seventeen diplomas were handed out between speeches. Had he not failed to appear, James Roosevelt would have got one "for his reply to the President of Brazil, thanking him for the decoration of the Brazilian Order of the Southern Cross, fully earned because nobody knew what James Roosevelt said, not even those who understood Spanish."*Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings was honored "in anticipation of his first argument before a packed Supreme Court...