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What began last fortnight as Spain's least bloody election in years was swelling last week into horrid crescendos of threatened social upheaval, secession and civil war. Overnight 30,000 political prisoners came bustling out of jail. They included the furious Catalonian secessionist, "President" Luis Companys, who had just begun to serve a 30-year stretch in a grim Andalusian prison for having proclaimed the industrial northeast of Spain the independent Republic of Catalonia (TIME, Oct. 15, 1934). Out of jail popped most of this suppressed Republic's Parliament and met in Barcelona, their capital. In Madrid more...
...your reference to Stalin as a "terrorist" while withholding the same qualification from Hitler and Mussolini. . . . The labor movement, the proletariat as a whole can expect nothing but sniggering from a magazine whose heart bleeds over poor J. P. Morgan having to answer questions before a horrid munitions investigating committee. Your cut of a Morgan partner exposed to the "cold stare" of a committee clerk was a perfect illustration of your antipathy...
Many of the packs have historical significance. In one very valuable set issued in 1680 the identification characters at the top are all but crowded out by wood cut illustrations of the suppression of the "horrid.. popish plot" of 1679. One of the pictures shows the hanging of five Jesuit priests and another a public book burning. Another set, made at Brianville in 1667, carries the hand made coat of arms of a noble French family...
...another four hours was the wreck found. Searchers, starting at the Jones farm, found themselves up against as horrid a spot for a crack-up as can be imagined. The woods into which The Southerner had flopped is dense, cut-over timber, growing out of a dank, quaking bog. In some places the gumbo of muck is four feet deep. Natives call it ''Loblolly," wear hip-boots on the rare occasions they enter...
...Horrid-sounding headlines were produced with two accusations: 1) officers and directors personally profited in the purchase of a big subsidiary; 2) in nine years the company paid $11,000,000 in dividends on an original investment of $3,000,000. But revelation-of-the-week was that Long Island's General Counsel Arthur J. (for nothing) Baldwin was a prolific rhymester...