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...vaults of Madrid's Bank of Spain, eminent Socialist Leader Indalecio Prieto boasted: "The Government will win because we have money, money and still more money!" With all Madrid newsorgans now in Government hands, substantial citizens of the capital read some strange bits under the familiar banner heads of what once were their favorite papers. "The only good bondholder," declared Informaciones, a Rightist organ not so long ago, "is a dead bondholder!" In red capitals screaming clear across the page Mundo Obrero clarioned THE WATCHWORD IS EXTERMINATION ! and approvingly reported that embattled miners of the Government militia were
...close of the New York Stock Exchange, a few brokers raised their eyes to the two flag staffs at the northeast end of the trading floor, observed that the New York State flag was missing from its place beside the U. S. flag. Instead, they beheld the red banner of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, its golden hammer & sickle stirring gently under a slight draught. At this unprecedented sight, a group of reactionaries hissed, booed, catcalled...
...Generalissimo Franco had ordered all his forces to fly the flag of the Republic (which was the same as that flown by the Madrid Government they were fighting), General Queipo de Llano, as a matter of popular expediency, advised that King Alfonso's red, yellow and red Bourbon banner be permitted to float over the Revolution in the south...
NASHVILLE TENN: The Nashville Banner today issued a warning against a man claiming to be a newspaper man who recently victimized that paper through bad checks. The man gave the name of Wilbur Pledge, it was said, and sometimes used the alias of Read. He claimed to have had experience with the Milwaukee Journal and to have seen service with the Canadian Army. The Banner asked that it be notified in case the man is found and described him as about 5 ft. 8 in. tall, weighing 140 lb.; ruddy complexion, short stubby hair...
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