Word: along
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what veteran Paris correspondents saw as "a curious victory along strictly party lines," the Chamber quietly voted the new Cabinet confidence, 369-to-196. It was a curiosity that the Popular Front Premier kept offering in the lobbies to resign in favor of a National Union Cabinet, kept finding insufficient takers...
Enraged French Leftists, including some War veterans, staged a riot 4,000 strong along the Seine, shouting anti-Fascist slogans, and four Paris policemen were stabbed with knives. Soon afterward 3,000 leaders of Communist groups in all parts of France were summoned to Paris for a conference with French Red No. 1, Maurice Thorez. The 3,000 arrived shouting "Open the frontier to Spain!" and "Thorez in Power!" Orator Thorez instructed them to incite the French masses "against their enemies, both without and within...
...Japanese, as they have done time and again in the last eight months, continued to keep the Chinese busy at one place, Kaifeng, while they suddenly last week resumed a halted offensive at another, this time along the Tientsin-Pukow railroad, 175 miles east of Kaifeng and 125 miles from the Yellow Sea. Japanese forces hurled themselves southward along the railway in an attempt to capture Suchow, strategic junction of the Lunghai and Tientsin-Pukow lines and main defense centre of the "Hindenburg Line." Furiously battling Chinese sought to stem the advance by hammering away with repeated flank attacks until...
Arrests. The Vienna Nazi press jubilantly reported that thousands of deserted automobiles had piled up along the frontiers as Jews, Catholics and Schuschnigg supporters were caught trying to escape. Typical of the thoroughness with which Nazi adherents had prepared for "the day" was the fact that 24 hours after Nazification the Nazi guard at the remotest frontier post was armed with a fully tabulated, thumb-indexed book of many thousand names on the Nazi black list, which he checked against the passports of those wishing to cross. Most sensational arrest in Jewish financial circles was that of retired Banker Baron...
...University City, he fought with the Leftist infantry in the Guadarrama Mountains, at Toledo and in Madrid. In the fourth month of the war the Government carefully sent him out of danger on a diplomatic mission to France. Last June it let him return for six months of sketching along the front from Madrid to Teruel. After showing his drawings in Barcelona last December, Artist Quintanilla packed them, frames and all, in six padded trunks and took ship for the U. S. In a little studio on Washington Square near the house of his host, Writer Jay Allen...