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...Socialist Norman Thomas, visiting Valencia, heard only one shot fired during several hours at the Teruel front trenches. But off the sea just before one dawn came a droning V of Rightist planes. Ninety bombs whistled down in Valencia's worst air raid to date. At least 200 people were killed, about 50 buildings destroyed. Uninjured but considerably ruffled, Socialist Thomas cried: "It was diabolical. I shall take a first-hand report of this to President Roosevelt." Lucky was the little British freighter Pinzon, at anchor in Valencia harbor. A bomb dropped full on her bridge but failed...
...grape and orange-shipping port of military importance on Spain's southeastern corner, now jammed with noncombatant refugees from Rightist-held Malaga. Almeria had nothing to do with the raids on Mallorca, but Almeria is on the section of Spanish coast that the German navy legally patrols. At dawn following the Deutschland bombing, five Nazi warships flying Swas tika battle flags from their main trucks drew up off the harbor entrance. Flagship was reported to be the Admiral Scheer, sister of the Deutschland. For over an hour this squadron proceeded to pour high explosive shells into the stucco & light...
...issued for their arrest. Meanwhile at Pittsburgh and neighboring Aliquippa, 24,000 of Jones & Laughlin's 27,000 workers filed quietly through the National Labor Relations Board's polling places in the plants, cast ballots voting "yes" or "no" on representation by S. W. O. C. Near dawn next morning the Labor Board announced that 17,000 men, 70% of those who voted, had plumped...
...Governor Simeon E. Baldwin. "J. Henry" came back quickly. He elected George P. McLean to the U. S. Senate in 1911 and the next year became State chairman. The Roosevelt-Taft split checked him momentarily, but he reorganized his machine Statewide, filled its treasury and from 1915 to the dawn of the New Deal reigned supreme. In 1920 Roraback moved on to the Republican National Committee. Even in 1932 he saved Connecticut for Hoover...
...voyage. The sea was glassy-smooth, the other passengers were mostly likable, the sunsets were tremendous. Standish was so bursting with health and the love of life that he even got up early sometimes to watch the sun rise. The 13th day out of Hawaii he rose before dawn, dressed with his usual care, went forward to his favorite sunrise-watching spot, a door in the bow about 15 ft. above the water, kept open because of the halcyon weather. There he stood and watched the sun rise. As he turned to go, his foot slipped on a grease spot...