Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boot that is Italy continued to be studded with bombs last week, as it has been for more than a fortnight (TIME, July 27). One, unexploded, was found dangling outside a frontier guard's window in the village of Mattegna, near Trieste. Another went off with a blast at 1:40 a. m. in a Genoa street, breaking windows and giving officials the scare of their lives. For the King was arriving...
With the old Yippee! of the cowpunching West, Cheyenne last week held its 35th annual celebration of Frontier Days, at its big park sentimentally dedicated to the era when Cheyenne was a way stop for the Pony Express.* The original U. S. rodeo, Frontier Days drew all the West's best cowhands for five days of hard competition. Governor William Adams, onetime cowboy, went up from Colorado to watch the fun. Publisher Frederick Bonfils of the Denver Post, last great frontier pub publisher, took 400 guests to Cheyenne in a special train. There were pep and parades, noise...
...side, bites its lip and raises his hands in victory. For the first time in the show's history one cowboy, Fred Meyers of Okmulgee, Okla., won both the calf (20 8/10 sec.) and steer (24 1/10 sec.) roping contests. Rival of Cheyenne's Frontier Days is the Pendleton, Ore. Roundup, to be held this year Aug. 27-29. Queen of that rodeo will be brown-haired, blue-eyed Betty Bond, 18, junior at the University of Oregon...
...This Is The Place." In Utah last week there was another frontier show commemorating not broncos and steers but covered wagons and the arrival of Brigham Young with his 148 Mormon pioneers in Salt Lake valley in 1847. Under a searing sun which killed one man, dropped a score of others, a three-hour historical parade filed through the streets of Salt Lake City. Queen of the celebration was Margaret Young, 20, a great-great-granddaughter of old Brigham through the line of eldest sons.* On her float which won first prize in the parade, Miss Young, garbed...
Texas and Oklahoma are not independent Balkan powers. If they were, they would have been at war last week, with a frontier bridge across the sluggish Red River as causa belli. As it was, Oklahoma's bewhiskered Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray† declared martial law and called out guardsmen on his side of the river. Half a mile away on the other side, Texas' corpulent Governor Ross Shaw Sterling posted a detachment of his Rangers for military duty. The real fighting, however, was done in the columns of the Press...