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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Generalissimo Franco turned to strike at Valencia where the Radical Government is taking cover, sent an attacking force to Viver, 34 miles northwest of Valencia, while invading White planes dropped incendiary bombs on Valencia itself. At Oviedo the Reds gained their only success. Reckless Asturian miners paced the streets, lit dynamite fuses from their dangling cigarets, caused a stampede among the White band bottled up in the city whose condition last week was reported to be "critical." According to neutral observers "the war is as far from ending as ever...
...professorial smile appeared again, and in his kindly benevolent way the professor informed his class, "Gentlemen I see no purpose in lecturing if the reading has not been done. Good Morning". With the fresh flower in his buttonhole appropriately rufiled, Samuel Eliot Morison, Ph.D., M.A., Lit. D., Professor of History and Official Historian to the University retired...
...resort hotel in the mountains of Italy that were Austria's not so long ago and welcome in the Second World War. "Onward Christian Soldiers" comes forth from them and the piano to mingle with the crash of bombs and the tinkle of glass in the sporadically lit-up darkness. But in with the searing cynicism of their rendition of the martial hymn, there is somehow a terrible heroism. And the theme of the play, if we may be allowed to extract it out of the molten swirl of observations on Communism, Fascism, the League of Nations, Germany, Italy, England...
...sold him the story." While Mr. Morgenthau was discussing bigtime money matters in press and private conference last week, Chairman Leo T. Crowley of Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. had something to say to the nation's bankers on distinctly smalltime money matters. Releasing his 1936 report, Mr. Crowley lit into the members of FDIC for dabbling in speculative bonds. Warned the man who has underwritten 14,000 banks: "Low earnings are making some banks reach out and deal in more or less low-grade bonds. They are in and out of the bond market, as you or I would...
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