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...strongly entrenched themselves. This followed after three days of downpour had sent millions of gallons roaring down the Guadarrama and Manzanares Rivers, which overflowed into the White trenches. Gun carriages sank into seas of mud. Dripping wet and nipped by freezing cold, the White troops of Generalissimo Francisco Franco withdrew to higher ground, surrendering the waterlogged region to the jubilant Reds with scarcely a shot fired...
First everybody fought the guards, 25 swimming out into the river and 24 swimming back when shots were fired over their heads. Then the Negroes fought the whites. National Guardsmen withdrew outside the prison walls, announcing that twelve prisoners were dead and that all had "absolutely gone mad." Governor Chandler had previously putted through the gates in an outboard motorboat. "Get us out of here, Happy!" the inmates yelled. "We're gonna drown if yon don't!" "Happy" yelled back: "It's a hell of a mess, boys, but I'm going...
...chamber music recitals. He began to strike out for himself as a soloist in England. France, Switzerland. Holland, Italy, Spain. Austria. In 1933 the German Government refused to let Serkin, a Jew, play at the Brahms Centennial in Ham burg (TIME, May 1, 1933). Violinist Busch, an Aryan, withdrew too, took the young pianist to live with him in Basle. Year and a half ago Serkin married Busch's young daughter Irene...
...news. First Federal District Court in Washington to examine the case figured out that KVOS was not "unfairly competing" with A. P., refused to grant the injunction. When a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed this decision, the National Association of Broadcasters decided it had had enough and withdrew. Carrying on by himself, sturdy Rogan Jones retained Lawyer William H. Pemberton of 'Olympia, carried the case to the U. S. Supreme Court when the A. P. asked for temporary and permanent injunction. For the A. P., counsel was handsome old John W Davis & staff...
...when the foundering company's $85,000,000 book assets included practically no cash. Later, however, when the banking creditors' committee, bondholders' protective committee and unsecured creditors' committee were pondering a Doherty reorganization plan, Oilman Doherty looked into Richfield's books more closely, withdrew the plan and apparently washed his hands of the whole business...