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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Major Rowan had performed a feat that was "an everlasting lesson" which "covered your army with glory," a deed for all to "love, admire and emulate." At the end of it, Consul Zarza pinned a blue-ribboned gold medal upon Major Rowan. It was the Order of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuba's highest honor.* The old soldier, suffering from age's infirmities and a rib broken last April, received his reward in silence...
...Eire Act set the seal of Parliament on the new and even freer status which Prime Minister Eamon de Valera won for his country in the British Commonwealth (TIME...
...blue streamlined French train, emblazoned with the royal coat of arms and British and French flags and drawn by a blue and gold locomotive, drew into Paris at a newly decorated station in the Bois de Boulogne, used only on visits of State. Their Majesties' arrival in Paris was signaled by releasing 10,000 white "Doves of Peace" from a huge, flower-decked cage. The 2.000,000 citizens of Paris who had turned out to sing and cheer realized in advance that they would scarcely glimpse Their Majesties, for every Frenchman knew that Minister of Interior Albert Sarraut...
...hurled their full force, but at last reports had failed to breach the line at any spot. To prevent General Miaja from withdrawing long-inactive troops scattered along southern Spain's far-flung battle line for the defense of Valencia, the Rightists' famed radiorating General Queipo de Llano, commander-in-chief of southern Rightist Spain, was last week ordered to drive against another Leftist balloon-shaped salient. This balloon, 3,125 sq. mi. of the rich, mineral-producing Estremadura region, bulged into Rightist, lines north of Cordoba and extended to within 50 miles of the Portuguese border. This...
...pilots are stunting over this crowd," said the President-Elect Eduardo Santos last week to War Minister Alberto Pumarejo as they stood on a brilliantly bedight reviewing stand, surrounded by Colombian dignitaries and their wives, watching a review opening Bogotá's great new military field, Campo de Marte...