Word: frontierisms
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...Irish son of an Irish policeman, Edward Joseph Kelly was born 57 May Days ago on Chicago's West 38th Street. At 17 he got a job as axman with the Sanitary District then building the Drainage Canal near his home. Later he was toughened in the rough frontier town of Lemont, Ill. where Negro workmen, when killed on the job, were dumped on the rock pile and covered up with canal excavations. By industry and intelligence Kelly became a good practical engineer, a good practical politician with the Sanitary District. His first wife died in 1918. Four years...
...Most German frontier guards confiscate sums above 200 marks only from known German Jews, "Marxists" and other Nazi-designated "undesirables." Foreigners seldom have their pockets searched, usually have to show their pocketbooks in which, if wise, they keep less than 200 marks. Even if caught with more than 200 marks a foreigner can usually bluff...
...Vienna the Dollfuss Government pressed their advantage by charging that on the very morning of the protests in Berlin "15 uniformed Germans from Bavarian territory ambushed and killed an Austrian sentry near Kufstein on the Bavarian frontier." Two days later uniformed German Nazis crossed the Swiss frontier near Basle, searched the shed of a Swiss watchman whom they accused of smuggling Communist leaflets into the Reich. Promptly both Switzerland and France strengthened their guards along the German frontier and Chancellor Dollfuss saw another chance for a smart move. He protested to London, Paris and Rome that the Austrian army (limited...
...Colorado's second annual Central City Play Festival, blowing on the cold ashes of the oldtime mining boom town. In the centre of Central City (year-round population: 300) is the massive stone Opera House where once Edwin Booth, Joseph Jefferson and Rose Coghlan played to rowdy frontier audiences, and where the Passion Play was given in stereopticon pictures. The contractor Brothers McFarlane built it in 1878 on the site of a horse corral. When the mining boom spread away to west & south, mountain rats took Central City over. Rain streaked the Rhenish landscape on the Opera House curtain...
...statesmen exchanged the draft text of an Austro-Hungarian-Italian trade treaty which may prove of utmost impor tance. It is no secret that Il Duce opposes Adolf Hitler's efforts to draw Austria into union with Germany-which would mean that Italy would face on her northern frontier not puny Austria but the potent German Reich. According to the draft text exchanged in Rome last week Italy is ready to agree to increase her purchases from Austria and Hungary and, over a period of years, to buy from them more than they sell...