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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Derio. suburban villages, cried, ''Bilbao never has been captured ... I swear to you it will not fall now." Back and forth over bloody Mount Santo Domingo on the northern shoulder of San Marina Ridge swept the hand-to-hand fighting. Five flights of German or Italian-built bombers poured death onto the hillsides. Four battalions of Rightists held the Santa Maria heights. Basque defenders, punished beyond belief reformed for their last desperate resistance to the grim, tightening circle with which Generalissimo Francisco Franco hoped finally to extinguish the proud Basque boast which had stood for 700 years...
...from the Wee Kirk. When asked in 1923 if a marriage might be performed in the Little Church, Chairman Eaton replied, "Why not?" Since then 7,000 nuptials have taken place, to the increasing distaste of Southern California ministers, in that church and in the Wee Kirk which was built in 1929 as a copy of the Scottish church where Annie Laurie worshipped. Ginger Rogers married Lew Ayres in the Little Church of the Flowers but there have been no cinemarriages at the Wee Kirk. The latter, however, has an impressive record of interment ceremonies. It was the scene...
...California it is worse that it contains a bridge which has made a lot of horrid news- Pasadena's notorious "suicide bridge," the long, aqueduct-like structure spanning 158½-ft.-deep Arroyo Seco in which squats the Rose Bowl. According to local legend, when this bridge was built in 1912, several workmen were buried alive in the concrete and their tortured spirits haunt the place. Certainly it has been a sorry spot: fortnight ago the 88th person jumped to death over its low parapet...
...Built in 1906 at a cost...
...years Nebraskans have lacked no reminders of the beautiful friendship between Levi Leland Coryell Sr. and Levi Leland Coryell Jr., who are respectively president and general manager of the company. It started soon after the company did, in Auburn, Neb. when Junior Coryell was born. Father Coryell built a play pen in his office and took Junior to work. Every two hours he carried him home for feeding and a change. When Junior started to school, Father Coryell moved his office ten blocks to be nearby so Junior could drop in at recess and lunch periods. When Junior graduated from...