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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Generalissimo Francisco Franco's troops edging nearer to Barcelona, France last week began to jitter over the probability of a Fascist victory on her southern frontier. In the Chamber of Deputies there were shrill demands-mainly from the Left-that France renounce the Spanish non-intervention policy and openly aid the Spanish Loyalists, just as Italy and Germany are openly helping the Rebels. The realistic French General Staff was reported to be contemplating occupying the Island of Minorca and Spanish Morocco if the Italian-backed Rebels win the war. There were scary rumors that the Rebel-held side...
...lines licked it in 1929 by heaters from the exhaust), was tragically demonstrated one afternoon last week. Less than two hours after Imperial Airways' four-motored flying boat Cavalier had left New York for Bermuda with eight passengers, a five-man crew, a series of terse, desperate messages began to reach the Port Washington base...
Lincoln Steffens once called Boston the most corrupt city in the U. S. During the past eight years the Boston political machine ruled State as well as city. Last week Massachusetts' new Governor, cowcatcher-chinned Leverett Saltonstall, began the Augean task of purging Massachusetts of corruption. First pile into which he plunged his shovel was the State Education Department...
Massachusetts citizens began to speculate on Mr. Reardon's likely successor...
...Viennese Atonalists had cut their modernistic teeth, a shy, bearded Yankee named Charles Ives was busy writing his own kind of modernist music. Nobody paid much attention to Composer Ives's strange, complicated scores. But little by little the few music-lovers who did hear them began to realize that Ives was neither a trickster nor a crackpot, but a writer of real, live music. Today Ives is regarded even by conservative critics as one of the most individual and authentically American of all U. S. composers. But performances of his music are still few & far between...