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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Propped up in bed in Paris last week was Count Charles de Chambrun, retired French Ambassador to Rome recovering from a pistol shot in the groin, fired by sultry Madeleine de Fontanges who accused him of breaking up her romance with Benito Mussolini (TIME, March 29 et seq.). Cried the Count: "I swear I never in my life occupied myself with Mme de Fontanges' personal affairs...
Changing her own story last week, Mme de Fontanges claimed that it was the burning jealousy of white-thatched Joseph Paul-Boncour, former Premier of France, that really ended her glorious idyll with Il Duce...
...bloody struggle for the heights of Saibi Peak guarding the plains five miles from the key city of Durango. Besieged by land, blockaded by sea Bilbao's war-swollen population of 350,000 was reported eating cats and seagulls. Gritting his teeth, Basque President José Antonio de Aguirre y Lecube declared: "We are in good shape...
...speedily contrived plan whereby the Chase would do for Cuba what Cuban American proposed to do as a bank of issue, thus retaining for the Chase its dominant position. Further to checkmate the Chase, Promoter Greñas had the support of the Asociación National de Acreedores del Estado, organized and fostered by him, composed of some 75,000 native creditors of the Cuban state-chiefly veterans, civil servants, teachers, small bondholders. The Asociación could be counted on to oppose any Chase payoff before their claims were met. At the week's end, the Chase...
Died. Major Ulciseno Franco Granero, 56, chief of Cuban President Federico Laredo Bru's aides; of cancer of the stomach; in Havana. He was one of the army sergeants who revolted in 1933 against Provisional President Carlos Manuel de Cespedes under his close friend Colonel Fulgencio Batista, who made him chief of the Cuban national police...