Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese goods?this boycott having furnished the specific excuse cited by Japan for her bombardment of Shanghai (TIME, Feb. 1); 2) to send money and munitions to the Chinese bandits and volunteers who continue to harass Japanese forces in Manchukuo; 3) to mass large Chinese forces near the frontier of Manchukuo, ready to attack at a propitious moment and recover "the four eastern provinces of China...
...make the ruble worth 65?, whereas its official value is supposed to be 51? and it actually sells on clandestine exchanges for from 3? to 20? per ruble. Only place where Moscow citizens may buy foreign goods with rubles is the Custom House. There unclaimed articles, articles seized at frontier stations are auctioned off. Last week United Press Correspondent Eugene Lyons reported a few prices...
...enjoyed by the Officers of the Regiment from the colonel, who is notorious for "sitting on it," down to the newest subaltern. After that it goes either to my brother, a tea planter in Assam, or to a brother-in-law serving, at present, on the N. W. Frontier of India, or perhaps to a friend in England, so that it is never wasted...
...Commons by kind-hearted Leader Stanley Baldwin of the ruling Conservative Party. On top of such a speech, His Majesty's Government could scarcely threaten, in writing, to bomb Abyssinians into letting Kenya alone. Obviously, too, His Majesty's Government cannot afford to police the whole Kenya frontier. What to do? Staring His Majesty's Government in the face was the fact that over 1,000 Kenyans have been killed this year by Abyssinian slave raiders...
...appearance at Geneva this week, Premier Herriot sandwiched one of the quickest good-will trips on record. As one Socialist & Republican to another, he dashed down to Madrid to felicitate the new Socialist & Republican Government of Spain. When his train stopped at San Sebastian, eleven miles inside the Spanish frontier, Premier Herriot shouted at the top of his voice: "Long live the Spanish Republic...