Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stamm) and Mrs. Davies' female secretary. This sort of candid Capitalism is, in a foreigner, the approach which commands the most respect from Bolsheviks in Russia today; they despise a Liberal or a Pink. At the Soviet frontier, where everyone must change trains, Ambassador Davies asked for a private car. Told that the Soviet has none, he cheerfully chartered a whole ordinary sleeping...
Dictator Kamâl Atatürk last week rushed with Turkish troops to the Syrian frontier and presumably his bravoes staged the riot in Antioch. Immediately afterward the tense atmosphere suddenly, mysteriously cleared. The Dictator returned to Istanbul and his Foreign Office announced that it was dickering amicably with French Premier Léon Blum...
...member of his family although he has married twice (his first wife died in 1901) and has three married daughters. Before he was 24 he had worked his way through college and law school, taught school for seven months near Walla Walla, Washington Territory, and returned from the far frontier to Nebraska. There he was shortly made prosecuting attorney, served three terms, then two terms as district judge...
...this time, the Frederick Jackson Turner thesis of the influence of the frontier in American history has been sufficiently overworked to be regarded as no longer novel; Mr. Seldes, in a charmingly written, yet somewhat prolix production naively presents an emasculated re-examination as the key to America's way out. Again we stand at the Cumberland Gap to hear the pounding of the buffalo feet, the tread of the Indian, the tone of the oxcart--and in many more pages than Turner's memorable paragraph. Because of the frontier America need become neither Fascist nor Communist. Just what...
...Christmas Eve the "Yankee Squadron" of famed U. S. aviators headed by Bert Acosta, pilot of Admiral Byrd's transatlantic flight, at the last minute abandoned plans for a whoopee party with their wives at Biarritz, swank French resort across the Spanish frontier. They decided that they would rather raid Burgos, Generalissimo Franco's headquarters. The hundreds of incendiary bombs that they dropped on White hangars and munition dumps they jokingly described as "Messages of Christmas Cheer for the boys in Burgos...