Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since civil war burst over Spain, European military experts have been saying that a crucial test was whether the White forces of Generalissimo Francisco Franco would be able to take Irun on the French frontier and thus cut off the Madrid Government from receiving covert aid from the French Front Populaire...
Last year Benito Mussolini truculently held Italy's war games on the country's North frontier. Last week he staged this year's war games in mid-peninsula among the mountain crags near Naples, which was about as near as the stormy Dictator has ever come to a Peace gesture...
...Great markets yet to be developed lie within our own borders and across the sea. The frontier of new wants points this way to a better standard of living in this country. Even in our most prosperous days many of our people did not live well enough. How can it be said that we have overproduction when so many Americans are badly fed, badly clothed and badly housed? How can it be said we have overproduction when large groups of our fellow citizens are neglected, underpaid, or unemployed? How dare we talk about overproduction when the evil effects of these...
Crowded up against Portugal's frontier last week by the troops of Spain's Revolution were portions of Spain's Government forces hard-pressed and cut off from Madrid. When some of these skipped over the frontier into Portugal, they were harshly driven back to be slaughtered. Perhaps they would have fared less hard had not the Lisbon Cabinet of Portuguese President Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona just received assurances that Great Britain will come with culverins "in case of need...
...They Died with Their Boots On (TIME, July 29, 1935), Wayne Card's life of Sam Bass is least interesting in those sections where the central figure is built up as a bold and exceptional individual, most vivid in its account of political and social struggles on the frontier...