Word: frontierisms
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...Indian Affairs John Collier, threatened a sitdown strike against Tim McCoy unless he: 1) came through with back pay, 2) furnished more than one clean shirt a week, 3) provided free war paint. Sent back to the show by Collier, the Sioux refused to perform. In a big frontier-drama act where white men were supposed to make Indians bite the dust, for two performances there was not a Sioux Indian to bite...
Because Italians were completely surprised by Hitler's move toward Anschluss, the artificialty of the Italo-German accord has been intensified. "The more Hitler says that the Brenner Pass frontier is safe," he said, "the more the Italians are distrustful...
Spanish brown bears, frightened by the clash of Rightist and Leftist forces among the crags of the Pyrenees, came loping in large numbers over the frontier into France last week. Another refugee from North Leftist Spain was the Socialist who built its People's Army, famed Indalecio Prieto. Traveling by car with two women of his family and a secretary, Socialist Prieto said shortly to correspondents at the frontier: "Yes, we are driving up to Paris, but I have no mission...
...Leftist key stronghold, Escorihuela, prepared for an offensive against the Teruel-Sagunto highway. On the north Catalan front, brisk Leftist counterattacks regained several strategic villages and Barcelona restored contact with "the Leftist Lost Battalion" (43rd Division). "We prefer to fight where we are with our backs to the French frontier!" announced its commander...
...such a rate that even the official Red Army organ Krasnaia Zvezda ("Red Star") has expressed concern at the "great depletion of regimental, brigade and divisional commanders." In one or two cases prospective purge victims in the Red Air Force have hopped into Soviet battle planes, escaped over the frontier...