Word: frontierisms
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More serious was the charge that Liberian President Charles Dunbar Burgess King, along with his Vice President and several Cabinet members, had been profiting by having their "Frontier Guard'' raid villages of their Afro-African countrymen, torture women and chiefs, seize black bucks and sell them into slavery in French Gabun and Spanish Fernando Po. When a League of Nations Commission verified the practice. President King and his followers, on stern advice from Washington, resigned. Next Liberia, under President Edwin Barclay, defaulted on its loan of $2,250,000 from Harvey Firestone. In 1925 when rubber...
...lived all this while at No. 11 Downing St., next door to Prime Minister MacDonald. Holding the sinecure called Lord President of the Council, he has in fact made the National Government's most vital pronouncements, such as his famed "The Rhine-that is where our frontier lies!" (TIME, Aug. 13). Last week Mr. Baldwin, arrayed by his valet for audience with the King-Emperor, waited serenely while George V in Buckingham Palace had a nice long tea with James Ramsay MacDonald...
...veldt of the Boers, beyond Bechuanaland and the hinterland of Cecil Rhodes's dreams, nearly 2,000 mi. by railroad from the cape, is Northern Rhodesia, a high, flat, subtropical savannah, full of elephants, roan antelope and a million lean blackamoors. On this British territory's northern frontier is one of the world's richest copper mines, famed Roan Antelope, an amazing furrow of ore 200 ft. wide, 10 miles long, 3,000 ft. deep at the centre. Roan and its companion mine Mufulira could flood the world's copper market, if that should...
...once spent eight days clinging to the tail of a wrecked plane in mid-Atlantic, crashed to his death while stunting over a Pilsudski memorial service, but of all the memorial services throughout the world, the most dramatic incident occurred in the town of Rowne on the Polish-Ukraine frontier. While bells tolled and villagers hurried to the church for a Requiem Mass, a shot was suddenly fired from the Russian side of the frontier. Polish guards tumbled out, rifles in hand. Up rode a long-coated Soviet cavalryman begging permission for his comrades to pay a last tribute...
...almost impregnable mountains, what benefits then does Italy expect to get from its subjugation? Italian Finance Minister Count Paolo Thaon di Revel announced last week that the Italian expedition to Abyssinia had already cost the Fascist Government $50,000,000, and Italian troops have not yet crossed the frontier. Fascist bigwigs divide the Abyssinian advantages of the campaign into two groups, sentimental and practical...