Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the civic muck of Kansas City, Mo., was stirred and roiled. How rich and black its muck could be, Kansas City had just learned from the indictment of Boss Tom Pendergast, charged with taking $315,000 in boodle and failing to pay U. S. income taxes thereon. What followed was more surprising: the boss's machine set out to prove to Kansas City that pure hearts can beat beneath mucky vests...
...French Fleet had one end of the Mediterranean tied up and the English had the other. Nevertheless, flushed by its recent conquest of Albania, Fascist Italy last week talked, screamed, shrieked empire. One night tens of thousands of ardent black-shirted Fascists marched from their neighborhood clubs to Rome's famed Piazza, di Venezia. Shouting their Fascist slogans, singing their Party's songs, they faced the lighted windows of the massive Palazzo Venezia, where, as they all knew, the powerful Fascist Grand Council was meeting to decide high questions of State...
...Orange and Black are not blessed with material in such wholesale quantities as is Eli Yale, but they are a bit ahead of most of the League teams in experience--this may pay dividends in the early stages of the campaign...
...Bach process, the steel is first "pickled" (cleaned with acid), then coated with colorless chemicals (formula undisclosed) and heated. The coated steel turns black, gold, bronze, purple, blue, red or green, and the color becomes an integral part of the surface. The treatment increases the corrosion resistance of 6% chrome steel (16¾? per Ib.) almost to that of high-grade chrome-nickel stainless steel (34? per lb.). Said Iron Age: "The increase in corrosion resistance, in part verified by at least several disinterested laboratories, is astonishing." Last week Mr. Bach declared that use of cheap steel, thus colored...
CHILDREN OF GUERNICA - Hermann Kesten-Alliance ($2.50). On April 26, 1937, a row comes to a head in the large Espinosa family of Guernica, Spain; Uncle Pablo, the black sheep, mocks his kindly brother for his liberalism in the civil war; son and daughter are innocently involved in the murder of an anarchist leader; Father Espinosa cannot sell his chemist's shop and escape to France. German bombers sailing overhead end the family row and the Basque city of Guernica at the same time. Young Carlos escapes to Paris where he tells his powerful, grim story to German refugee...