Word: june
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against Rightist positions in Huesca was still battering away last week. Anarchists at last had a Spanish war legend worthy of the highest traditions of Anarchism. They insist that the death of Rightist General Emilio Mola in an airplane crash as his forces advanced upon Bilbao (TIME, June 14) was "really no accident," but due to the fact that Mola's pilot was secretly an anarchist, suicidally wrecked the plane to kill Mola. Finally there was fierce, sporadic fighting on all sectors around Madrid but the month closed with a stalemate in status quo as the Rightists finally took...
...worth, compared to $2,584470,000 owned by the Bank of England and $11,000,000,000 worth by the U. S., whose currency stabilizing fund is $2,000,000.000. The stabilizing fund of the French Treasury, originally $450,000,000, was recently reported virtually exhausted (TIME, June 28). Thus last week bankers had reason to think it was chiefly John Bull who was keeping the franc steady on international exchange, and that grateful French politicians of the Left were seeing to it that he got his money's worth of what sagacious John Bull values most-tranquillity...
...Davies, he bent on making an immediate tour of the Ukraine. As if most of the Soviet Union were not weltering in a lather of treason trials, executions and suicides of Big Reds, and purges from the Communist Party which its news-organs reported under screamers daily (TIME, June 28 et ante), life went on at Moscow in most of its accustomed grooves. The story about What Ails Russia was so big that most correspondents in Russia completely gagged on it last week, sent few dispatches. Suddenly New York Times Correspondent Harold Denny, whose Moscow by-line has for many...
...TIME, June 21), brought the discharge and arrest of four more high officers. Thirty-six more "wreckers" were executed at Khabarovsk...
...Schmeling last year surprisingly knocked out Joe Louis for the first time in his career, his just reward was obviously a fight with Champion Braddock. When after contracting for the fight, Champion Braddock withdrew to fight Challenger Louis, Challenger Schmeling lived up to his end of the bargain (TIME. June 14), sailed home last month claiming to have won the title by default. His claim strengthened when the man whom he had defeated defeated the champion, Schmeling was last week training for a "world's championship" fight in London in September, against England's current heavyweight hope. Tommy...