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This was very nearly all that needed saying about the siege of Madrid, which reached its 31st day this week, but meanwhile Soviet munitions were arriving to bolster the cause of proletarian Premier Francisco Largo Caballero who fled with his Cabinet from Madrid to Valencia (TIME, Nov. 16), and the enormous quantity of gold which his adherents took from the Bank of Spain was beginning to have its effect. It was established last week that disguised Spanish fishing smacks, heavily armed, have been regularly running this gold to Marseille. The Bank of France has been buying it as fast...
...revival meeting in a generation of distributing tracts and organizing holy roller camp meetings among the hillbillies of the Great Smoky Mountains. Some 15,000 of his 100,000 disciples were in Cleveland preaching, praying, yelling, healing each other and throwing fits in The Church of God's 31st and greatest annual get-together...
...Stanford classmates had seen Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States, in 1898, they wouldn't have known him either. At that time he was three years out of college, 24 years old, earning $7,500 a year as a mining engineer in Western Australia. That was good money before the year...
...world's heavyweight championship was a Negro named Tom Molineaux. A Virginia slave whose master freed him for knocking out the bully of a neighboring plantation, Molineaux went to England in 1810, fought famed Tom Cribb, gave him a severe thrashing for 30 rounds. In the 31st round, Molineaux fractured his skull against a ring post, lost the fight. Cribb beat him again before a crowd of 40,000 in 1811. The black fisticuffer was found dead in an Irish army barracks...
...Presidents sooner or later fall into the habit of comparing themselves, directly or obliquely, with one of their greater predecessors in office. In 1931 Herbert Hoover went to Valley Forge to deliver a George Washington address. When he got through, the Press had the distinct impression that the 31st President was thinking of himself and his troubles in terms of the First President, that the noble general who shivered at the Valley Forge of the Revolution and the great engineer who was then shivering at the Valley Forge of the Depression, were really not so far apart in spirit...