Word: frontierisms
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...150th anniversary of the establishment of American civil government in the Northwest Territory at Marietta. Ohio, offered him an occasion, reeking with history, to hang a large historical backdrop behind the little political maneuvers of this trip. He did so with one of his analogies between the old frontier of ''new land, new game, new opportunity" and the F. D. R. frontier of social and economic security. Said...
...that the last geographical frontiers of the U. S. have been reached and exploited, Harry Hopkins believes: "The new frontier is idle men, money and machines, and all the resourcefulness, ingenuity and courage that reside in twelve or 13 million unemployed men is helpless to take up this new frontier without tremendous organization of productive forces such as only Government can supply when business is in the doldrums." Henceforth, in short, the Government should subsidize citizens who need to start or recoup their fortunes on the frontier of work-not-offered-by-private-enterprise...
...these acts a stunned Arab population retaliated, in kind. From the window of a passing train a bomb was thrown into a Jewish crowd at Tel Aviv. Arab warriors fought with British soldiers on the Palestine frontier where 13 Arabs were killed. Near Tel Aviv two Jewish boy hikers were stabbed. Casualties in ten days of terrorism mounted to: Arabs, 45 killed, 145 wounded; Jews, 23 killed, 81 wounded...
...boundaries. Fully three-fourths of the population speak German. Reich Field Marshal Göring recently published in his National Zeitung a map of Greater Germany, prepared by Reich propagandists for school use, which pictured practically the whole of Switzerland as belonging to the Reich. The Swiss frontier is "the boundary of the internal separation of the German people," announced Göring's newssheet and claimed Switzerland's 3,000,000 Germans as "exiled citizens of the German Reich." Official Swiss protests registered in Berlin brought a semiofficial promise that the map would be withdrawn from educational...
Eduard, save up your pence, For Adolf soon will be over the fence. So runs the insolent jingle which Nazi sympathizers among Czechoslovakia's German minority sporadically plaster on Czech frontier barriers. No one need explain to worried Czechs that Eduard is their president, Eduard Benes (pronounced Benesh), that Adolf is their neighbor, Hitler, that the fence is a cup-shaped chain of mountains along the Czech-German border, a chain about the height of Vermont's Green Mountains. Since the Sixth Century this fence has served as a barrier against the eastward push of Teutonic tribes...