Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Flaming Frontier is one of the pictures which have been and will be advertised with all the super-adjectives at the picture man's command. It is a monster special massed around Custer's last stand. It helps history out by providing a survivor of this noted massacre, providing further a girl for this survivor. It is a very fine, utterly virile western picture that never just gets round to being great...
...while waiting for Congress to demobilize the Continental army, George Washington made a tour of inspection of New York waterways, laid out a route for a canal linking the western frontier with the Atlantic seaboard. In 1817-25. Governor De Witt Clinton of New York dug the Erie Canal ("Clinton's Ditch") from Troy to Buffalo. It was later found that his engineers had followed, inch for inch, the Washington route. More lately, the Erie Canal has been modernized as far west as Syracuse, where it joins the Oswego Canal to form the main New York State Barge Canal...
...European territory in the Balkan War of 1912. After the World War, Venizelos proved himself easily the greatest diplomat among the representatives of minor powers at the Paris Peace Conference. His "enticing charm"-as one statesman expressed it-won for Greece so much added territory that the Greco-Turkish frontier is now but 20 miles from Constantinople...
Indemnity. Bulgarians grudgingly admitted that Dictator Pahgalos was at least prompt when 15 million leva ($110,000) passed from Athens to Sofia last week as the second half of the indemnity awarded by the Council of the League of Nations, as arbiter of the Greco-Bulgar frontier clash (TIME, Nov. 9 et seq.). The payment was made eleven days before...
...Onetime Dictator Plastiras, exiled foe and perpetual rival in conspiracy of Dictator Pangalos (TIME, March 1), turned up at Skoplje, Jugoslavia, and wandered out among its environs "to look for a villa." Several Jugoslavian policemen drifted out in the same direction. When Plastiras attempted to escape toward the Greek frontier they closed in and firmly escorted him back to Skoplje. The Jugoslavian authorities declared that they are offering to Colonel Plastiras "the hospitality due a political exile...