Word: frontierisms
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Bang, bang, bang went the gavel. To a raucous crowd of leather-skinned oil promoters, sharpers, frontier businessmen and Indian chiefs William Henry Murray, convention chairman, announced that, by a thumping majority, they had approved the constitution which was to make Oklahoma the 46th State* of the United States of America. Place: Guthrie, Okla. Time...
...states bordering the Soviet Union on the West. Since Russia was having trouble in the East last week (see col. 2). Comrade Litvinov offered secret and highly favorable terms to the Western border states for a pact guaranteeing that none of them will attack Russia's European frontier. Close to midnight verbal promises to sign this pact within 24 hours were exchanged. Reports were current that Persia and Afghanistan will also sign, thus further strengthening the Soviet Union which has always feared aggression. Third score of the week for the big. beaming Russian was a quiet agreement reached...
...know the little red schoolhouse. . . . It was the companion of the log cabin. Both were the magnificent creations of a pioneer people fighting a great frontier, not of physical hardships alone, but of intellectual sparseness as well. . . . Literature and art should celebrate their glory, and there we should leave them. They are the outworn instruments of an earlier...
...recipient of a $20,000-a-year pension from the Belgian government. Ciudad Rodrigo, scene of one of his grandfather's great victories and centre of the Spanish estates thrust upon him by a grateful Cortes, is a little fortified Spanish town between Salamanca and the Portuguese frontier. Tourists bless the ultra-British foxhunting Duque de Ciudad Rodrigo, for in that town is one of the quaintest, best run inns in Western Spain, the Hospederia del Castillo de Enrique...
...fought about a district known as the Five Hills. The Five Hills overlook a natural undefended harbor. Held by U. S. artillery they would prevent the landing of Japanese troops. Held by Japan they would protect her base. The Five Hills are just far enough from the U. S. frontier to give Japan a fairly even break in a race from...