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...lost strips and snippets of territory here & there along most of their fronts as the Leftists proved able for the first time to get out in the open and launch sustained attacks. They pressed their offensive northeast of Madrid for a gain of twelve miles, hurtled through in the Cordoba sector 13 miles, and delivered their first major blows outside of Spain proper by sending a fleet of bombers and the battleship Jaime Primero across the Straits of Gibraltar to shell and strafe Ceuta, important supply base in Spanish Morocco which, ever since the war began, has been Rightist. Snug...
...three have definitely been spotted, is the companion of Sirius whose density is approximately half a ton to the cubic inch. *World telescope ranking: Observatory Diameter of Reflector Mt. Wilson........ 100 in. Dunlap (Toronto).....................................74 in. Dominion ...........................................72 in. Perkins (Delaware, Ohio).......................... 69 in. Harvard .....................................................61 in. Argentine National (Cordoba).........................60 in. Harvard (South Africa) ....................................60 in. Berlin-Babelsburg ........................................48½in. Melbourne..................................................... 48 in. †One light-year=approximately six trillion miles. Traveling 186,000 miles per second, light takes only eight minutes to reach Earth from...
...behind-the-scenes shots, many of which came from the cinematographic archives of the nations participating. Proof of the ability of the picture to "speak for itself" is given by the many slashing, booming, gorey minutes during which the e x p e r t commentator, Pedro de Cordoba, remains silent...
...Shirley is three British subjects, Ramsay MacDonald, the Prince of Wales and Mahatma Gandhi. Marian Hopkinson is Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt; Westbrook Van Voorhis, Hitler; Porter Hall, Stalin. Barbara Bruce is Frances Perkins and Mrs. James Roosevelt (the President's mother). Remains to be seen whether Pedro de Cordoba (ex-King Alfonso of Spain), John Battle (Vice President Garner) and Charles Slattery (Al Smith) will have much to say in 1933-34. Some strong-voiced actor, yet unchosen, will get the big role of General Hugh S. Johnson, sulphuric chief...
From Madrid two infantry regiments, artillery and bombing planes started for Seville. General Sanjurjo sent twelve soldiers with a trainload of dvnamite to blow up the bridge at Lora del Rio. These fell captive to a squad of Civil Guards from Cordoba. By nightfall General Sanjurjo was in a panic. Reinforcements from the south had not arrived. Emissaries he sent to nearby towns were caught and jailed. At midnight he summoned General Gonzales y Gonzales, delivered his command to him. Then he collected nine loyal lieutenants including his son, piled them into two automobiles, fled toward the Portuguese frontier...