Word: frontierisms
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Washington, March 24--A thousand "relief pioneers" now receiving government aid will go to new Alaska homes this summer on an Arctic frontier...
More through circumstance than anything else, Mr. Sheean early acquired a reputation as a dare-devil newshawk, in the best Floyd Gibbons manner. He was in Morocco during the uprisings of the 1920's, and managed several times to slip through the frontier between the French and the native troops. He had escapades in Spain which gave him an insight into the Rivera revolution. While a correspondent in Paris, he observed Poincare at close range; the only mental conception he retained was one of contempt. He was in Geneva when the ill-fated Protocol was introduced; his cynicism regarding...
...eleventh day of the revolution, Venizelos' generals threw in the sponge and scuttled for the Bulgarian frontier. Their automobile stuck in the Boz snowdrifts and they crossed the frontier on foot, their baggage on their backs. Rebel General Demetrius Kamenos told newshawks: "Our efforts to overthrow the Tsaldaris regime must, at least for the moment, be abandoned...
...Venizelos' greatest political strength has always been in his native Crete and among the Macedonian mountaineers along the northern frontier. Macedonians too are the best-known troops in the Greek Army, the be-tasseled, be-kilted Evzones familiar to all tourists. Other plotters had been at work in Macedonia where rebellion spread like quicksilver. They were less successful with the white-kilted Evzones. The Athens detachment rebelled tentatively, was quickly subdued with a few volleys of gunfire. Next morning other Evzones regiments were patrolling the city beside loyal Tsaldaris troops...
...themselves dropped in on a meeting run by the busy, vocal "Social Frontier" professors who come chiefly from Teachers' College, Columbia. This faction, always a power in N. E. A. conventions, had gone to Atlantic City determined to jolt the superintendents out of their customary conservatism. They were holding forth in the Rose Room of the Traymore Hotel...