Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many scare-stories of revolts in the Ukraine have come of late from neighboring Rumanian sources that last week U. S. staff correspondents were despatched to learn the truth. These gentry, having prowled gingerly up and down the Rumanian side of the Russo-Rumanian frontier, and having interviewed numerous escaped Russians, reported with conviction that...
...everyone knows, the present Turkish frontier, inclosing part of Armenia was recognized by the Lausanne treaty, which the U. S. Senate has refused to ratify (TIME, Jan. 31). Therefore onetime Statesman Gerard, now chairman of the American Committee Opposed to the Lausanne treaty, was only performing his chosen duty, last week, when he flayed Moukhtar Bey-but Mr. Gerard chose also to rebuke the U. S. State Department...
Last week President Ricardo Jimenez of Costa Rica issued a call for songs "fresh and luxuriant from our farms and our rivers, not withered from the cabarets," songs to defend his people "from the tremendous invasion of poor songs that cross the frontier to spoil our pleasure." Two annual national contests will be held, the material gleaned to be compiled into a book on native music...
...From coast to coast and frontier to frontier the U. S. people hallowed the memory of their 126,000 War dead. In the national Valhalla at Arlington a granite Cross of Sacrifice was dedicated by Canada to those U. S. soldiers who lost their lives while fighting with the Canadian Expeditionary forces. The great cross, 30 feet in height was unveiled by Vincent Massey, Canadian Minister to the U. S., and accepted by Frank Billings Kellogg, U. S. Secretary of State, in a moving ceremony. Many dignitaries were present...
This drama of early days on the Western frontier, written by Mrs. E. H. Sullivan, will be presented as the club's thirty-fourth production both in Cambridge and in Boston...