Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those days New York City's Society was the private hobby of Mrs. William Astor. The Vanderbilts were unassuming folk whose father, the old Commodore, had helped push the nation's frontier into the Pacific Ocean. The Vanderbilts were rich in money but Mrs. Astor's jewel was her master of ceremonies, Ward McAllister, who limited the number of Manhattan's citizens who "wouldn't make it uncomfortable in a ballroom for others...
...Chancellor was born to the wife of an Austrian customs inspector on the German frontier of Austria in 1889. Shy, nervous and inclined to keep to himself, Adolf was encouraged by his mother to do watercolors. In his 'teens he became an orphan, went to Vienna, tried to be a painter, became a builder's helper ("house painter" to his critics) and emigrated to Munich with $4 in his pocket rather than perform his Austrian compulsory military service...
Northernmost point of New York State, snug against the Canadian border, is Rouse's Point, identified in Baedeker's guidebook as a U. S. "frontier-station," in the U. S. Government's mind as a famed port of entry for Canadian liquor. Its local press is the weekly North Countryman. Last week the North Countryman charged itself, along with the rest of the U. S. Press, with "selling the Depression to the people through millions of columns of free advertising in the guise of news." The North Countryman (circ. 2,000) promised to print not another line...
With the expanding frontier (both physical and industrial) gone, the U. S., says Seldes. has changed quickly out of some people's knowledge: notably Herbert Hoover's, who "deeply believed in the common words of flattery always given to America and was evolving out of them a philosophy of American life. He risked his popularity and his re-election to stand by his beliefs. It was unfortunate that the actualities to which his beliefs correspond had vanished from America a generation before." Seldes thinks public opinion in the last three years has gone far to catch...
...Shanhaikwan, frontier city between Jehol and "China Proper" (Chinese of course consider Jehol and all Manchukuo part of China), the Japanese spoke their minds memorably. "We can assure the world we have no intention of advancing a foot beyond the Great Wall," said Japanese General Suzuki who was at that moment sitting well inside the Great Wall in Shanhaikwan at 40° below zero. "We have nothing to be ashamed of. The Chinese must come to us on bended knee...