Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...born and bred to the trade of a foundry workman, Russia's War Commissar spends much time inspecting and orating to collective farms and factories. In 1931, when trouble with Japan first loomed, and again in 1933 ''Klim" inspected not only the whole Soviet Far East frontier but the leading mines, smelters, metallurgical plants, factories and, on his last trip, the colonies of ex-Red soldiers now being established by Dictator Stalin's orders as the patriotic rallying points of luckless Russians who are being forced to colonize Red Far East open spaces as buffers...
...able to turn her splendid industrial plant to war purposes in a very short time. With Germany rapidly getting back to her prewar military footing, the rest of the world does not lag far behind. France has just completed a vast chain of fortifications across her Eastern frontier; the armies of Balkanized Southern and Central Europe have reached a new peak in efficiency and numbers. Japan has embarked upon a program of naval and military expansion which threatens to bankrupt the government, and yesterday announced that the army was being reorganized and strengthened. Not to be outdone the United States...
...into the sea tomorrow, it would only provide a human interest story for the Boston American, with cuts, and a new job for the Physics profs. The latest cheerful dispatch from Manchukuo, indicating the altruistic mission of a large body of soldiery to "deal with bandits on the Siberian frontier" doesn't bother anyone but the Russians, who, as everyone knows, don't count. In fact, all the European countries are wishing they could run excursion trains into the maritime provinces in the spring to cheer the Japs as they munch the bored cadavers of stagnant Siberians. In short...
Wildly cheered by the patriotic populace of Modane near the Franco-Italian frontier, 1,200 French soldiers climbed aboard a troop train. Half an hour later 535 were dead and 243 injured in "the worst train wreck in history.'' This grim fact which has been a military secret since it occurred in 1917, was released by the French Government last week. The release came apropos of an investigation into the recent wreck at Lagny in which 200 people died (TIME, Jan. 1) after which the President of the Republic asked mourning Frenchmen not to light the candles...
...DePauw University, Elmer Thomas started for the lands of the Cheyennes and the Arapahoes, to "make the run" when the Great White Father threw open Indian Territory to his white children. A few months later Elmer Thomas hung his shingle over the doorway of a frame house in the frontier town of Lawton. Across the street hung the shingle of a young, blind lawyer who had not yet developed his resonant chime-like voice-Thomas Pryor Gore. Frequent court opponents, they were friends, and both had their shoes shined by a newsboy named Riley. In that frontier world all things...