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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...December 1 cut; but if it should, labor would undoubtedly go on the nation-wide strike already voted. By putting it squarely up to the Government to do something for the staggering roads, the Fact-Finders gave impetus to Franklin Roosevelt's request that the two opposing groups get together on a sweeping legislative program...
...left the air force and was flying a French commercial-line passenger plane. Intense and nervous, with limited flying experience himself, Malraux made 65 flights over Fascist territory, was twice injured in crashes. His daily routine while writing Man's Hope was that of other Loyalist fliers-getting up before dawn, taking a bus from the Hotel Florida to the big municipal airport at Barajas, holding a conference on the day's plans, then taking off or waiting for a squadron to return. Hard-bitten Loyalist aviators recall Malraux's nervousness, his anxiety when planes...
Manuel, a hard, determined Communist, trained by Ximenes, becomes a brigade commander, checks the rout at Aranjuez, begins to learn war after he orders the execution of panicky deserters and is told by Ximenes: "You'll get used even to that...
Between 1923 and 1927 Malraux shuttled back & forth between Paris and the Far East, published a magazine in Saïgon, helped natives get out newspapers the Government suppressed. At 24 he was associate secretary general of the Kuomintang for Cochin-China. At 25 he was a member of the Committee of Twelve (Chiang Kai-shek was another member) which directed the Canton insurrection during the Chinese revolution, Malraux's post being propaganda commissioner for the key provinces of Kwangsi and Kwangtung...
...town across the river, emotional, romantic, enthusiastic Jesse Stuart refused to give up, though friends told him to stay out of Greenup. One of the most prolific writers going, he dislikes teaching school because it cuts his output from 30,000 to 10,000 words a day, hates to get "messed up" in politics, but says: "I am a citizen of Greenup County. I was born here; my people live here; my farm is here. I love Greenup County and its citizens...