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...Cadillac limousine while the Red Militia cracked out executions. Nevertheless, with Generalissimo Franco's forces advancing on Madrid at a rate of five miles per day, another White army under Colonel Juan Yague captured the former Red Militia General Staff Headquarters at Santa Olalla after savage bayonet fighting. At this the Madrid Government nervously issued what sounded like a desperate last-stand proclamation, calling "all citizens to the colors!" In Milan. Italy, ousted King Alfonso XIII of Spain popped into the Italian Royal Automobile Club, hopefully bought a set of Spanish road maps while his queen Victoria Eugenic...
Blackest page of all came with Hoover's eviction of the Bonus Marchers, wives and children, by gas and bayonet. Contrast that with the friendly reception accorded by Roosevelt and you will see some reason for the vet's leaning toward Democracy...
Outside his State, Gene Talmadge is widely regarded as a scraggle-haired, red-gallused, cigar-smoking demagog who, while bawling at the New Deal for being "un-American," has ruled Georgia at the bayonet points of his militia. When the Legislature refused to fulfill his campaign promise of cheap automobile licenses, he created them by executive fiat, booted out his Motor Vehicle Commissioner for refusing to sell them. When the head of the potent State Highway Board refused to dismiss five of his engineers, Talmadge sent militia to seize the Board's funds, declared martial law, ousted the Board...
...ready to take over the South's share of the world's cotton. Russia is increasing its production at a tremendous rate but for a closed national economy. India, which is the second largest cotton producer, and China, where the Japanese are encouraging heavy planting at bayonet-point, need their land for food. In Egypt there is a limited amount of Nile water. Nile soil. Only in Brazil and part of the Argentine are there real possibilities of increasing cotton production to the point where the Cotton Belt could be dropped from the list of world cotton exporters...
Ubiquitous in U. S. parks and public buildings is the conventional War memorial doughboy with trench helmet and bayonet, charging eternally in bronze or marble. Last week an arrestingly different conception for a U. S. War memorial was unveiled at St. Paul, Minn. Startled citizens and American Legionaries got their first look at a huge, brooding Indian, towering in 55 tons of cream-white Mexican onyx 36 feet above a slowly rotating pedestal in the black marble concourse of St. Paul's new City Hall. One great hand held the Pipe of Peace. The other was raised...