Word: dahl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chapter was last week tagged on to the saga of Harold E. Dahl, the U. S. aviator who fell into Rebel hands while fighting as a mercenary for the Loyalist Air Force in July 1937. Ambassador Claude Bowers, back from Spain for good, said that the famous letter Harold Dahl's pretty wife, Edith, wrote to Francisco Franco, enclosing an interesting picture of herself and begging clemency for her husband, never reached the very married Generalissimo. His staff officers handed the picture around and "passed judgment." according to the New York Daily News, "on this and that." Then they...
After a spectacular trial for "rebellion" again.t Franco's regime, Aviator Dahl was sentenced to death, immediately reprieved...
...city just could not get rid of him. Once, just before he was to be exchanged back to the Loyalists, he announced publicly: "I don't give a damn about a cause. I'm fighting for money." The Loyalists took someone else. And ever since, Harold E. Dahl has been Peck's Bad Boy in Salamanca. Reason why he stays where he is definitely unwanted: he is even more definitely wanted in Los Angeles on charges of having passed eight bad checks...
...that the city must approve any unification plan devised by the Transit Commission, the Commission's Special Counsel Samuel Untermyer in 1930 offered to pay $489,000.000 for both companies. This was the highest price ever suggested, but B. M. T.'s square-jawed Chairman Gerhard Melvin Dahl held out for more...
...city itself. Last year, at the November election, voters passed an amendment to the constitution allowing the city to exceed its legal debt limit by $315,000,000 to effect transit unity. And by last week, when the city offered $175,000,000 for B. M. T. alone, Chairman Dahl was glad to take it, for depression and competition from the Independent have continuously weakened his position. That leaves the city $140,000,000 in City bonds to dangle before I. R. T., which is likely to bite...