Word: columning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city which had once been the heart of Republican resistance soon echoed with cries of Arriba España! Viva Franco! The clenched fist became the upraised arm. Some 40,000 secret Fascist sympathizers -members of the Fifth Column-dropped their Republican disguise, took over the city even before the first of Franco's troops had crossed the Manzanares River and taken actual possession of Madrid. Out of hiding in foreign embassies and legations came hundreds of Franco partisans...
...bulging, well-documented Franco index (said to contain some 2,000,000 names) was being annotated from the personal memories of the Fifth Column. Moreover, a large portion of the Loyalist population was being forced, under the threat of punishment, to become informers. The Serenas, picturesque night watchmen who let people into their homes late at night for a small tip, were ordered for questioning. The two oldest inhabitants of any building in which ''murder, robberies, looting, arrests or any other offenses were committed" were ordered to appear before military courts. All those possessing documents, pamphlets, court records...
...Note: The Boston paper which carries Mr. Winchell's column deleted this paragraph...
...notice in TIME, March 6 in the Miscellany column, that mention is given to the recent announcement that all semi-pro baseball umpires henceforth will wear striped uniforms to distinguish them from players' suits...
...syndicated cafe-society column, orchidaceous Lucius Beebe last week digressed to announce an exciting discovery: that holders of marine-insurance policies on personal property lost away from home can collect for lost golf balls. Mr. Beebe further implied that the insurance people themselves had just discovered the fact and that they were scared to death...