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Word: frontiers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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WARSAW--A demonstration celebrating the attainment of a Polish-Hungarian frontier by means of Hungary's conquest of Carpathe-Ukrainia incited tonight shouts of "Down with Germany" and a clash between police and anti-Nazi students...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 3/17/1939 | See Source »

...Roosevelt's policy toward Europe was now definitely known to place the defensive frontier of democracy in France. Toward Asia, Mr. Roosevelt wanted to extend the U. S. defensive frontier to Guam, but the House had stopped him at Wake Island. Senators who disapprove of Mr. Roosevelt's frontier extensions fell huffing & puffing upon his air corps expansion as unjustifiable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Huffs, Bluffs & Handcuffs | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...Maas of Minnesota cried: "We want the world to know that we intend to defend every inch of American soil anywhere, at any time, from anybody." Chairman May of the Military Affairs Committee joined in and shouted: "Americans must take their stand for or against this country. The American frontier is where the Stars & Stripes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATIONAL DEFENSE: Windy Guam | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...Polish Military Staff College. In the war with Soviet Russia in 1920, when Soviet forces under the late Marshal Mikhail Tukhachavsky pursued the Polish Army to the gates of Warsaw, the young officer was first a colonel of horse artillery, then commander on the Lithuanian-White Russian frontier. Later he became military attache in Paris. That period in Colonel Beck's career was ended abruptly by the French, who asked him to leave. Stories differ on why the French disliked the Colonel. One report was that the Colonel was too curious about French military secrets; another connected his name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Guardian | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

From Berlin, centre of the Autobahnen, Herr Hitler's workers had also laid highspeed roads to Falkenburg, within 95 miles of the Polish Corridor; to Hamburg, in the northwest corner of the Reich; to Saarbrücken on the French frontier; to Munich in the south and Vienna in the southeast. As Herr Hitler was opening the Auto Show, 300,000 workmen were resting in 218 barrack towns for the next day of digging, blasting and concrete-pouring on Autobahnen in every quarter of the Reich, even in East Prussia, on the other side of the Polish Corridor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Hitler Hobby | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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