Word: april
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...functionaries of the French Foreign Office in Paris. Favored journalists were tipped that under arrest in Saragossa, for having made a speech in which he attacked the Rightist Air Force for too vigorous bombing, was famed General Juan Yague, who led the recent Rightist drive which captured Lerida (TIME, April 11). Information that General Yague is out of circulation came from French secret service agents in Rightist territory, made a rattling good story on the Quai d'Orsay. Hot-tempered, hot-tongued General Yague was reported as having said that if Generalissimo Franco had as many members...
From Barcelona last week came confirmation that while Leftist troops were busy with their retreat to the sea month ago. Leftist military tribunals were busy wiping out disaffection behind the lines. During April in Barcelona alone 135 death penalties were dealt out, 103 for "defeatism" and treason...
...January 1936 the keel was laid. In April 1937 Queen Wilhelmina launched the Nieuw Amsterdam.* With accommodations for 1,232 passengers in cabin, tourist, and third classes, the new, 785 ft., 36,287 ton ship had 374 private bathrooms (a record for her size), 23 public rooms so arranged that all could be thrown together to make her a one-class ship for cruises, two swimming pools, a theatre, more complete air-conditioning and fire protection than any ship afloat, aluminum lifeboats. Most notable of all, her interior decoration ranked her at once as one of the most beautiful ships...
Sing Sing Prison officials let it be known that Gertrude Sheldon Whitney had visited her husband, Richard Whitney, three times since his two-week probation ended on April...
...Victor (Will Fyffe, Margaret Lockwood, John Loder; TIME, April...