Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Star witness for the defendants was Francisco Largo Caballero, former Premier of Leftist Spain, who testified during the trial that the Poum did not instigate the May 1937 uprising in Barcelona, that Poum Party executives were "sincerely anti-Fascist," not the reverse, as charged by the prosecution...
Whether Andrés Nin is alive or dead remained an open question. In Manhattan last week Alexander Kerensky commented that he talked recently with a former fellow prisoner of Nin in the Madrid jail where Nin was held for a time last year. The fellow prisoner told Kerensky that the jail was then in charge of Soviet Russians, and that he believed Nin was taken from Madrid to Moscow. The prosecution insisted at the trial that Nin escaped from Madrid to the Rightist lines, but he has never been reported in Rightist Spain...
WASHINGTON--Two witnesses told the House Committee investigating un-American activities today that Gus Hall, an organizer for a Committee for Industrial Organization Union and former Communist Gubernatorial candidate, directed bombings and other terroristic acts during the 1937 "Little Steel" strike at Warren...
...work of art was unveiled yesterday in public ceremonies at Washington. Henry L. Shattuck, Fellow and former treasurer of the University made the presentation in the presence of Frederic A. Delano, chairman of the National Capital Parks and Planning Commission, and Charles R. Warren, member of the Board of Overseers...
...that has paved the way for the decline of boss rule has been the advent of necessity as a directing power recently become a major factor in American life. Professionalism in social services and trained personnel became a serious problem. Further, the machine was unable to carry on its former ward beneficence in periods of prolonged economics crises...