Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secrecy, Franklin Roosevelt well knows, lasts about five minutes in Washington-particularly if 17 Senators are involved. Newspapers the world over soon headlined that Franklin Roosevelt had placed the U. S. "frontier" or "first line of defense" in France. As Chief Executive he had laid down for the Senators a foreign policy aligning the U. S. more strongly than ever behind France and England. As Commander in Chief he had declared his determination to back those democracies for defensive war by every means short of actual manpower...
...protest to the destruction of the "Venus of the Yard" during the weekend Funster sculptors molded another snow woman within the protected sanctum of the frontier settlement of Dunster House last night...
...next to insoluble. For every road in the area was choked with refugees, not only a half million that had left Barcelona, but thousands more that the advancing Rebels swept before them. It was one of history's greatest and most tragic hegiras. From heights on the French frontier as far as eye could see a steady river of humanity slowly rolled toward the border...
Gunga Din (RKO Radio), most expensive picture in the history of RKO, which was last week on the point of emerging from a six-year bankruptcy, unfolds a jolly story about high jinks on India's frontier. Poor old Gunga Din (Sam Jaffe) has small part in the proceedings. In the first part of the picture he wobbles about carrying a goatskin water bag. In the last part, he inspires a scared-looking Rudyard Kipling to produce a commemorative poem. The rest of the time Gunga Din's doings are eclipsed by those of three agile young sergeants...
With Generalissimo Francisco Franco's troops edging nearer to Barcelona, France last week began to jitter over the probability of a Fascist victory on her southern frontier. In the Chamber of Deputies there were shrill demands-mainly from the Left-that France renounce the Spanish non-intervention policy and openly aid the Spanish Loyalists, just as Italy and Germany are openly helping the Rebels. The realistic French General Staff was reported to be contemplating occupying the Island of Minorca and Spanish Morocco if the Italian-backed Rebels win the war. There were scary rumors that the Rebel-held side...