Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British radio. Foort left a seaman's job to play a piano in a Lyons Corner House restaurant,* became Britain's most popular cinema organist. Organist Foort this week was officially on vacation, actually en route to Manhattan to pick up a new organ for an assault on the big money. He has resigned from BBC, will open in November a music-hall tour which guarantees him $13,000 for a year, almost three times his annual BBC earnings...
...earlier Europe had been warned of the extent of unrest in Spain by the murder of Monarchist Deputy José Calvo Sotelo, onetime Finance Minister, at that time head of the Monarchist organization Renovatión Española. He had been taken from his Madrid apartment by uniformed Assault Guards of the Spanish Government, delivered dead to a cemetery caretaker. Sensing a big story, knowing that armed guards were patrolling Spanish cities, newshawks in Paris woke up string correspondents along the Spanish border, put in a call to Oran, in French Morocco. At 1:30 a. m. Madrid suddenly...
Little Tough Guy (Universal) clucks its tongue sympathetically over the bitterness of a boy whose father has been convicted of murder for killing a man while helping a picket line repulse an assault by strikebreakers. But hopelessly quartered and drawn by the tugging of four wayward plot trends, it is less notable as a contribution to cinema than it is for expressing a viewpoint cinema has seldom before ventured-that there is something wrong about strikebreaking...
...other barriers straddle the river between Kinkiang and Hankow. This week, Japanese mine sweepers, gingerly nosing up to the boom, were driven off by Chinese big guns at the Matang fort, and Chinese General Chang Fah-kwei, entrusted last week by the Generalissimo to defend Hankow against a Yangtze assault, breathed easier as the rain-swollen river itself came to his aid, spilled over and drove several Japanese landing parties back to the boats...
...County's big-nosed, big-talking, grandstanding District Attorney Buron Rogers Fitts-whom the Clinton reformers had long been attacking as fiercely as they had the mayor-unexpectedly jumped into action. He secured grand jury indictments charging beefy Captain Kynette and two aides with conspiracy to commit murder, assault with intent to commit murder, and malicious use of explosives, the first of which carries a possible death penalty. For nine weeks the Kynette trial has been Southern California's biggest political circus. District Attorney Fitts, eagerly re-establishing himself as a legal White Knight, extracted testimony that...