Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Canadian officials, Siam's King & Queen will board the Canadian Pacific private car Van Home, their suite will board two compartment Pullmans, detectives and guards will board two ordinary Pullmans, and, with diner, club car and baggage car attached the Royal special will speed Eastward, crossing the U. S. frontier at Portal, N. Dak. about midnight April 19. Drowsy officials despatched 1,700 miles by the State Department will extend greetings to H. R. H. the Prince of Sukhodaya (King Prajadhipok's incognito...
German Surprise, In Berlin approval and surprise were general at how thoroughly Dr. Curtius and Dr. Schober have worked out the details of their Zollverein. So far as trade is concerned the Austro-German frontier would be wiped from...
...Fischers were planning a holiday in the Harz Mountains. Then John sprained his ankle, had to stay at home. When the War started Carl & Janet were in Germany. On the train to Holland Carl's half-forgotten patriotism gave him dreadful qualms; just before they reached the frontier he gave himself up as a German citizen. That was the last Janet saw of him for a long time...
...squadron of airplanes, moved against Kufra by forced march. Last week they struck. Every man and boy who could hold a rifle fought in the Senussi ranks but they were no match for planes and armored cars. After three hours the Senussi broke, fled east toward the Egyptian frontier, pursued by Italian cavalry and planes. Marshal Pietro Badoglio arrived on the scene just as the Italian flag was being raised over Kufra, as Fascist correspondents were burning the cables with rousing stories of the victory. Official casualties: two Italian officers, two native soldiers killed, 16 wounded. Hundreds of Senussi died...
Like many another frontier politician, Senator Ashurst has long fired his imagination with dreams of U. S. territorial expansion. Last week he flustered the State Department, set Mexican officials to guffawing, by reviving his twelve-year-old proposal that the U. S. purchase Lower California from Mexico.- To the 58,338 desolate square miles thus acquired he would add another 10,000 sq. mi. clipped from the Mexican State of Sonora and tacked on to his own Arizona to straighten its southern boundary. By" his resolution the President would be ''respectfully requested to open negotiations" for this international...