Word: columns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back pages, a double-page spread inside, and five other pages of the day's issue already devoted to the Gedeon case, felt impelled to ask himself publicly: "Should we have done this?" By printing a ravishing body view of the murdered Veronica Gedeon smack in his editorial column beside the face of Chief Justice Hughes, Self-Critic Patterson boosted his paper's total of the murdered Veronica's pictures that day from 15 to 16, of which nine were nude or negligee views...
This was a lighter side of Reds at play, but Mr. Cox grows earnest writing his British admiration of the men now assembled in Spain under General Emilio Kleber, today Commander of the International Column, the tough soldiers of fortune from many lands who first put the backbone of trained soldiering into the defense of Madrid (TIME, Nov. 9 et seq.}. Writes News Chronicle's Cox: "General Kleber is by birth an Austrian. His family took him to Toronto when he was still a child, and he became a naturalized British citizen, which he remains to this...
...Russian civil war, and rose to be one of their best commanders. After it he went to Hamburg, where he organized the Communist storm troops. In 1927 he was in China, leading one group of the Red Armies against Chiang Kai-shek." Over exactly how the present International Column was organized and hurled into Spain just as Madrid's defenses were about to crumble, Communist Sympathizer Cox draws a veil, simply recording: "General Kleber was at the head of the first brigade of the International Column which arrived in Madrid on that fateful Sunday, November 8th. . . . The Spanish civil...
Thus many of the big new Russian tanks which Soviet newsreels show rushing in terrifying fashion across the Red Square are now giving mighty account of themselves in Spain, and so is the International Column directed by Stalin's ablest practical maker of war outside Russia, famed General Emilio Kleber...
...alternative of their man's death from a severed spinal cord and ruptured spine, or his recovery with life-long paralysis. Scooped, the Examiner's editors could only groan as the first editions of the Chronicle screamed the ill-fated stunt through San Francisco with a five-column front-page picture...