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...make him feel he is accepting "charity," firmly asserted the Member of Parliament. His wife, who ceased having him live with her in 1936 and tried to cancel a previous financial settlement, sat with averted eyes. So packjammed was the courtroom with Mayfair socialites that some emerged with torn coats...
...since the destruction of Guernica. Over the sea from Majorca came a squadron of black-winged Italian bombers. High over Barcelona they loosed enormous bombs on the crowded, industrial and residential sections of the city. In five minutes over 400 men. women & children were killed, many of them literally torn in fragments, and twice as many were wounded...
...Paris reports were current that the French Embassy in Berlin had warned its home Government of a possible Nazi coup unless politically torn France quickly pulled herself together. She not only did so but instantly established a new Ministry for National Defense & War coordinating the War, Marine and Air Forces under Radical Socialist Edouard Daladier. General Marie Gustave Gamelin, Army Chief of Staff became Chief of the Army, Marine and Air Force with the title Chief of Staff for National Defense. This was said to "place France on a wartime footing." Just three weeks ago General Gamelin permitted a subordinate...
...Clothing Workers. In practice there has been only a "Big Two.'' Suspicious of Mr. Dubinsky's continued friendliness with William Green and Matthew Woll of A. F. of L., Messrs. Lewis & Hillman simply ignored his counsel. Pushed in opposite directions by factions in his own union, torn between his high faith in the C. I. O. cause and his personal loyalty to A. F. of L. (he was the first Jew on the A. F. of L. executive council), David Dubinsky found himself trying to ride two horses at once. Time & again in C. I. O. conferences...
Hemenway Gymnasium has begun its last week, according to an announcement yesterday that it will be torn down starting Monday to make room for the Littauer School...