Word: finally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week's end that rule was still unbroken, but plenty was happening on both sides to keep correspondents busy. Madrid observers reported that masses of troops and a dusty serpent of nearly 1,000 motor trucks were climbing the ridges, moving north for a final assault on Santander, last important stronghold of the starving Basque defenders of Bilbao...
...Italy would dearly love to make a grandiloquent state entry into Santander and then, if possible, in the opposite corner of Spain, where other Italian thousands are quartered, extend that stalemated front from Malaga to Almeria for another publicized victory. It would then be time enough for a final decisive attack on Madrid...
...abortive rebellions in Granada, Motril and Toledo. It was said that Italian troops, held in hearty disdain by Spanish Rightists since their disastrous defeat at Guadarrama in March (TIME, April 5), their poor showing at Bilbao, had been ordered to Toledo to remain in reserve for the eternally discussed final attack on Madrid. To make way for them, Spanish regulars were ordered to vacate the most comfortable barracks in the city. Firing broke out, the Falangist, Spanish Fascists, coming to the assistance of the Italians, and the Moors, always a little uncertain whom they were fighting and for what, joined...
...penultimate Jacobs business triumph, which paved the way for his finally leasing the boxing rights at the great Madison Square Garden last week, was his promotion of the Braddock-Louis fight in Chicago last June, first heavyweight championship bout not staged by Madison Square Garden in 18 years. But the final spurt which sent him on his way to becoming top man in U. S. fight promotion began in 1934 when Madison Square Garden, longtime promoter of at least one annual boxing match for Mrs. William Randolph Hearst's Free Milk Fund for Babies, decided to discontinue that practice...
...degree. The only way he could support his wife and two children was by working nights as a janitor in Pitt's State Hall. This spring obscure Janitor Harris was on the verge of his Ph.D. but did not know how to raise the $150 necessary for his final graduation fee. Then he was uncovered by newshawks and photographers searching for copy for the University's sesquicentennial celebration (TIME, June 14). Interviewed among his mops and pans, he made some by cheerfully observing: "I get a kick out of the physical exertion. . . . It is good work...