Word: frontierisms
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Last week G. O. P.'s Wendell Willkie got some more rest. He lolled on the lawns and terraces of the famous Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs. He flew over the tawny Colorado Rockies (from Central City, where he attended a frontier music festival, to Denver, where he chinned with stockmen and sugar-beet growers). He puttered around the International Typographical Union's stock farm, chumming up to Holstein-Friesian cattle. He chatted with the San Francisco Chronicle's bumptious young Editor Paul Smith. He talked campaign strategy with Colorado's Governor Carr, Iowa...
...Frontier. Instead of this remote danger of attack from the Pacific, there will be a new and far more serious danger from the Atlantic if Nazi Germany seizes or destroys Britain's Navy. The only route for an attacker crossing the Atlantic to strike at the Canal is through an area long regarded by most U. S. citizens as a source of rich commerce and a place for sunlit vacations: the Caribbean...
...world's largest oil refinery. At The Netherlands' Curacao near by are good commercial docks and workshops, an ample supply of fuel. Here, in the most valuable and most vulnerable area of the Caribbean, is the first outpost of the U. S.'s maritime frontier...
Venezuela, represented at the conference by its Ambassador to Washington, Dr. Don Diogenes Escalante, once served as a successful proving ground for the Monroe Doctrine. The occasion: when Great Britain grew choleric over a contested boundary line on the British Guiana frontier...
Jesse Newlon, 58, is a great, rumbling tub of a man, a longtime spokesman for the left wing of U. S. teachers. Onetime president of the National Education Association, he helped found the now extinct leftish magazine Social Frontier, was a crony of famed Leftist Professor George Sylvester Counts. An inveterate signer of manifestoes for a new social order, Dr. Newlon has always called himself a liberal, still does. Last week he presented his colleagues with a large dish of crow...