Word: frontierisms
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Even as Dr. Soong spoke "the enemy" were pouring some 50,000 mixed Japanese and Manchukuoan troops across the frontier of Jehol. The Chinese claimed to have taken Chinchow, Japanese concentration point between Shanhaikwan and Mukden. Heavy Japanese fire began at Chaoyang near the border. But it will be many weeks before they can scale the mountain passes (defended by 150,000 Chinese) leading to Chengteh...
Making a blanket arrest on the charge of trafficking in women and children, the Chilean police helped to dig the motorcade out, hurried it to the frontier town of Los Andes. There the brides & seamstresses confessed that they had been recruited in Santiago and Valparaiso to work in the casitas of Buenos Aires. They gave their ages as between 14 and 25. A few said they had been "lured" from home by promises of a motor ride to see the sights of Buenos Aires...
...Chancellor was born to the wife of an Austrian customs inspector on the German frontier of Austria in 1889. Shy, nervous and inclined to keep to himself, Adolf was encouraged by his mother to do watercolors. In his 'teens he became an orphan, went to Vienna, tried to be a painter, became a builder's helper ("house painter" to his critics) and emigrated to Munich with $4 in his pocket rather than perform his Austrian compulsory military service...
Northernmost point of New York State, snug against the Canadian border, is Rouse's Point, identified in Baedeker's guidebook as a U. S. "frontier-station," in the U. S. Government's mind as a famed port of entry for Canadian liquor. Its local press is the weekly North Countryman. Last week the North Countryman charged itself, along with the rest of the U. S. Press, with "selling the Depression to the people through millions of columns of free advertising in the guise of news." The North Countryman (circ. 2,000) promised to print not another line...
With the expanding frontier (both physical and industrial) gone, the U. S., says Seldes. has changed quickly out of some people's knowledge: notably Herbert Hoover's, who "deeply believed in the common words of flattery always given to America and was evolving out of them a philosophy of American life. He risked his popularity and his re-election to stand by his beliefs. It was unfortunate that the actualities to which his beliefs correspond had vanished from America a generation before." Seldes thinks public opinion in the last three years has gone far to catch...