Word: frontierisms
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...early period, Kokomo followed the frontier tradition. There were shootings, barn-burnings, tar-&-featherings. Somebody stole the elaborate metal hitching rack from the courthouse. Somebody else burned down the courthouse. The railroad came to town in 1854 and 32 years later Kokomo had its industrial revolution with the discovery, in the vicinity, of natural gas. Kokomo changed from an agricultural depot to a thriving manufacturing centre. After Elwood Haynes made his first successful run with his horseless carriage on July 4, 1894 at Kokomo, the town became Indiana's Detroit. There Haynes located his plant and there also...
...this time, when Germany most needs the support of the world, France is busying herself building cement trenches and machine gun nests on her frontier, and supporting a fleet of 5,000 military planes in deadly fear that Germany is secretly preparing for war. And yet it is only the politicians and newspapers of Paris that seem to fear and imagine this war, for again and again in the frontier provinces," Mr. Villard said. "I have found the peasants and towns people in perfectly friendly relations with the Germans...
...defense program of the Soviets in Eastern Siberia, industrial projects, strategic railway, settlement of veteran soldiers on the frontier, and the possible formation of a Turkey-Persia bloc on the Southern pathway to the Orient formed two other salients which Professor Hopper particularly stressed in his talk...
...Cortes, Spain's No. 1 Catholic politician, Fascist José Maria Gil Robles, leader of the Catholic Popular Actionists, was as hot as any Spanish Communist against foreign probing of Spain's private atrocities. "Down with these Listowels!" roared Gil Robles, "put them across our frontier...
With the jeers of Oviedo ringing in his ears, Lord Listowel accepted with alacrity this invitation to flee. In the Major's high-powered car, escorted by soldiers, the Commission dashed to Santander, just missed a boat for England, dashed on and were put safely across the frontier into France. On the train to Paris they were offered copies of a French journalist's report on Spain's atrocities appearing in the weekly Je Suis Partout. This charged that Spanish nuns were raped indiscriminately in Asturias, that some 30 priests were butchered or "roasted alive slowly," that...