Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week General Freydenberg assembled his staff at the frontier post of Taza. issued an Order of the Day relinquishing his command, announcing his recall to France...
...Bolivia was quite at liberty to make any arrangements with Chile that she could. Before Bolivia could get up momentum for a renewed appeal, Chile last week issued an indirect but nonetheless effective quasher. Her Minister to Uruguay abruptly announced: "My country brings to a close all of her frontier problems. None remains now to be contemplated...
When the "Iron Man" returned toward Paris, he was met at the French frontier by three subordinates of the German delegation, bearing copies of the Young Plan. Three hours later Dr. Schacht reached Paris, and for two hours was closeted with Mr. Young. Both emerged in evident good humor. Quickly a special meeting of the Second Dawes Committee was called by Chairman Young, who rapped briskly for order and then said...
...aboard, the Graf Zeppelin rose from its field at Friedrichshafen one morning at dawn and before 10 a. m. was flying over Vienna. School children in the streets sent up balloons with flags and flowers. Dr. Hugo Eckener sent down by radio a speech saying: "We crossed the frontier a few hours ago, but we do not feel ourselves in an alien land. We have the same tongue, the same Kultur, the same hopes. We will again come." Then the Zeppelin flew to Graz and returned home via Vienna and Salzburg, completing the trip in 13½-hrs. For the Graf...
Hero Moseley. The "Big River" or Rio Grande is part of the frontier between the U. S. and Mexico. Facing each other on opposite banks stand twin cities. El Paso and Juarez?queer twins. El Paso is a clean, Babbitt city, with little skyscrapers; but dirty Juarez is a town of low adobe structures where drink and vicious company are easily found. In Juarez last week General George Van Horn Moseley, U. S. A., acquitted himself right well as a Hero of Peace...