Word: frontierisms
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...city within one month. Aroused by this and other testimony, District Attorney Thomas C. T. Grain last week called a meeting of 50 such civic leaders as Owen D. Young, Seward Prosser, Thomas W. Lamont, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. Forty gentlemen attended, formed what newsmen likened to an oldtime frontier vigilance committee. A call was issued for complaints from racket victims. These poured in immediately, revealing gang levies on trucking, music, milk, funerals, laundries, freight, cleaning & dyeing...
Placidly General Ivan Miller, No. i White Russian in Paris, observed: "When opportunity arrives our army will cross the borders to fight Stalin." Added Cossack General A. P. Bogaievsky fiercely, "We have several cavalry divisions training in Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria -merely awaiting the word to cross the Russian frontier...
...Cossacks arrived for a first U. S. tour. They entered the country on "Nansen passes" (devised by the late Norwegian Explorer-Statesman Fridtjof Nansen to aid Russian emigres after the Revolution, issued by the League of Nations). Stories preceded them: about a concert they gave in Yassi, frontier town of Rumania, where so many Bessarabians mobbed the theatre that firemen were called to play the hose on them; in Riga, where 20,000 people met Jaroff at the station, carried him and his automobile to the hotel; in Berlin, where a German general gave him the Iron Cross...
Exuberantly Il Duce concluded: "By the year 1950 Italy will be the only country of young people in Europe, while the rest of Europe will be wrinkled and decrepit. People will come from over the frontier to see the phenomenon of this blooming Spring of the Italian people...
...area as large as the U. S. states east of the Mississippi River-towns and cities were frequently "captured" by both Federals and Rebels simultaneously last week-if their official announcements were to be believed. ' The main fighting line, insofar as it existed, was the southern frontier of the great coffee state of Sao Paulo, "Heart of Brazil," bailiwick of President Washington Luis and his ruling clique. It appeared certain that the southern Rebels had not advanced north of this frontier...