Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...literary as well as the geographical sense there are still wide open spaces in the U. S. Such trail-blazing authors as James Fenimore Cooper. Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Bret Harte have yet to be crowded out of their frontier freeholds, may still be said to have squatters' rights. But last week Author Grace Zaring Stone trespassed on Cooper's hunting-ground, and if she makes many more such successful expeditions, Cooper's title to the land will be considerably shaken. The Cold Journey may not prove as popular as The Last of the Mohicans (it will never...
Alfred Emanuel Smith, most famed Democratic liberal until the New Deal shoved back the liberal frontier and moved out on the Santa Fe trail of experiment...
...other. It might or might not have been signed by Paul Joseph Goebbels, but it did ask Mrs. Lewis to leave Germany within 24 hours. If she desired, she might have an additional 24 hours leeway. At the end of that time she would be escorted to the frontier by the police...
...July an unforeseen situation [the assassination of Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria] developed which was similar to that which prevailed in 1914. If we had not sent our divisions to the frontier, complications might have resulted that could not have been settled save by the voice of cannon...
...official break, as a matter of fact, had occurred, but Soviet Russia was thoroughly "mad" at Japan and her puppet. Manchukuo police and soldiers have been high-handedly arresting Soviet employes of the Chinese Eastern Railway (TIME, Aug. 27) along which Will Rogers jounced from Harbin to the Soviet frontier at Manchuli where he changed trains for Moscow. In Tokyo these arrests were strongly protested last week by Soviet Ambassador Konstantin Yurenev in a note which held Japan responsible for the acts of her puppet and concluded ominously: "The Government of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics expects that...