Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...games and cinemas in penitentiaries lest "the prisons hold out a welcoming hand to the youth of the nation." Republican Hurley: "Such work as the extermination of crime should not be partisan." Republican Stimson: "It is not unnatural for the boys of a country which has recently lost its frontier to be excited and stimulated by tales of danger and thrilling adventure. But it is certainly all wrong for such a spirit to be fanned up artificially by the engines of a sensational Press, by the enterprising photographers who record all the horrid details of crime. . . ." Ferdinand Pecora, like most...
Exactly what happened, and exactly where, may never be clear. In the sun-baked district of Ualual, claimed by Abyssinians to be 100 kilometers inside their frontier, and claimed by Italians to be in Italian Somaliland, an Italian force had to fight for the surprisingly long time of three days to disperse some Abyssinians. The Italians boasted that they killed , claimed to have been wantonly attacked. The Italian Minister at Addis Ababa demanded "indemnity and moral reparations." His Imperial Majesty Power of Trinity I, reputed descendant of King Solomon's Queen of Sheba, promptly flashed charges to Geneva that...
Last week the Bolshevik frontier guards glared at a pompous, obviously capitalistic person who came chugging across the frontier River Dniester, made bold to land on Soviet soil. "You can't land." they told him. "Go back...
...been many times edited and reedited since their first publication, little has been written heretofore upon the personnel of the group which carried the American flag into the wilderness of the Northwest in the first decade of the last century. Charles Wilson, self-styled "recreational student of farming and frontier history" of Arkansas, has fortunately taken upon himself the task of writing a biography of Meriwether Lewis, leader of the band of discovery...
...similarity between the policies of 1914 and 1934 evident. Once again, as in the days before the Great War, the traditional British policy of isolation has been abandoned. Daily cooperation with France and her allies is becoming more open. Stanley Baldwin's speech last spring stating that the frontier of the Empire is now on the Rhine was the first unmistakable sign of the changed atmosphere. More recently the provision of British troops for service in the Saar and the vigorous policy pursued at Geneva by the Lord Privy Seal, Captain Anthony Eden, have merely emphasized the new policy. England...