Word: frontierisms
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...date for the establishment of an Indian Federation (first step toward "dominion status") in 1935 or any other definite year. He rejected even the concept of an Indian-born Minister of Defense for India. He refused to pledge that Indian troops shall never be sent beyond India's frontier except with the special consent of the Indian Legislature. He stuck firmly by all the British "safeguards" that have stranded previous round table conferences, but he did think of a more polite way of talking about them...
Truesdale, Delafield-were joining in to publicize the cruise by promoting a shipboard dance Jan. 7. The venture is to raise money for an organization called Frontier Nursing Service Inc. Among the cruisers will be a dynamic, well-born Kentucky lady who became a nurse and midwife to carry medical care to one of the last U. S. frontiers...
...Japanese goods?this boycott having furnished the specific excuse cited by Japan for her bombardment of Shanghai (TIME, Feb. 1); 2) to send money and munitions to the Chinese bandits and volunteers who continue to harass Japanese forces in Manchukuo; 3) to mass large Chinese forces near the frontier of Manchukuo, ready to attack at a propitious moment and recover "the four eastern provinces of China...
...make the ruble worth 65?, whereas its official value is supposed to be 51? and it actually sells on clandestine exchanges for from 3? to 20? per ruble. Only place where Moscow citizens may buy foreign goods with rubles is the Custom House. There unclaimed articles, articles seized at frontier stations are auctioned off. Last week United Press Correspondent Eugene Lyons reported a few prices...
...enjoyed by the Officers of the Regiment from the colonel, who is notorious for "sitting on it," down to the newest subaltern. After that it goes either to my brother, a tea planter in Assam, or to a brother-in-law serving, at present, on the N. W. Frontier of India, or perhaps to a friend in England, so that it is never wasted...