Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...53rd birthday of Benito Mussolini fell last week in the astrological sign of Leo the lion. No Italian newspaper mentioned the fact because Fascism is a youth movement, the title of the Fascist anthem is "Youth" (Giovanezza), and Mussolini must remain always young. Last week his wife gave a family birthday party and, for a birthday present, Il Duce got word from his Ethiopian Viceroy Field Marshal Graziani that Italian and native troops had surprised an Ethiopian force trying to break up the north road out of Addis Ababa, had killed...
Inside. All this international intrigue last week had little effect on the fighting inside Spain. Rifles cracked, bombs fell, cannon roared and men died just as they had for the past fortnight, but Madrid itself was peaceful. One hundred and six of the U. S. citizens marooned in the Embassy there were safely evacuated to Valencia...
...News and Baron Beaverbrook's Daily Express. Reason: the censors who snip out offending paragraphs before newsorgans can be offered for sale on British stands had failed to snip out accounts of the Constitution Hill incident in which a revolver hurtled from the hand of Jerome Bannigan and fell beneath the hoofs of King Edward's horse† (TIME, July...
...short year. Beginning in 1922 the market for Amoskeag's coarse cottons, ginghams, denims and flannels shrank rapidly as the new market for rayons grew. More & more cotton mills were opened in the South, with a tremendous competitive advantage in labor and freight costs. Amoskeag's sales fell from $56,000,000 in 1920 to $28,000,000 in 1928; its production from 223,000,000 yd. of cloth in 1912 to 100,000,000 yd. in 1928. In 1927, when it looked as if Amoskeag would have to close, a company shake-up gave...
...divided among four men. Bass dodged Rangers and posses for a year, was betrayed by a spy in his gang, pinked while preparing to rob a bank at Round Rock. In his lawless career, the only man for whose death he was responsible was a deputy who fell in the general mêlée when Bass received his mortal wound...