Word: arming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they had each privately contributed 50 francs ($3.30) to aid the Spanish Government, appealed for as many more private contributions as they could get and defied Socialist Premier Blum to do anything about it. With numerous German and Italian planes already fighting as the Revolution's strongest air arm, the Spanish Government was sold last week a few French bombers and pursuit planes...
...burned her to the water line while British officers watched through field glasses from Gibraltar across the bay. The bombardment also set fire to odorous piles of cork, waiting shipment to Britain, wrecked the British-owned Hotel Cristina and pinked the wife of the British vice consul in the arm. Cruising off Gijon, the yacht Blue Shadow was shelled by a Spanish rebel warship which killed its British owner Captain Rupert Savile and wounded his wife, whose U. S. passport described her as Eloise Drake of Norwich, Conn...
Into Acting Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring's Washington office burst a man wearing red shorts, tennis shoes, an Indian war bonnet, a Kansas sunflower, with red paint daubed on his face and bare chest, a long white sack under his arm. Whooping, "Feathers instead of bullets," the visitor dumped 40 pounds of white feathers over Secretary Woodring's desk, scampered out before the Cabinet officer's return. Caught two hours later, still seminude, featherbrained Frank ("Woody") Hockaday, 50, onetime Kansas business man who now considers himself an apostle of peace, was lodged in the Gallinger...
...closed Vulcan was knocked apart again, shipped back to Birmingham. Nobody wanted him. The huge sections were dumped off the freight cars to lie rusting in the weeds by a railroad siding. After three years Vulcan was re-erected at the entrance of the Fair Grounds, his damaged left arm propped up by a huge timber...
Sculptor Moretti who died last year would not recognize his Vulcan when WPA and Kiwanis are through with him. Glittering with aluminum paint and with his damaged arm repaired, he will stand on a 123-ft. pedestal on the mountaintop, bathed in floodlights and with a neon light flickering from the hammer in his hand. On a clear day farmers should be able to see him 50 miles away...