Word: keys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pobo Mountain front, just northeast of Teruel which has been quiet since March, Rightist troops under General Jose Varela seized the Leftist key stronghold, Escorihuela, prepared for an offensive against the Teruel-Sagunto highway. On the north Catalan front, brisk Leftist counterattacks regained several strategic villages and Barcelona restored contact with "the Leftist Lost Battalion" (43rd Division). "We prefer to fight where we are with our backs to the French frontier!" announced its commander...
After reading pages 50 and 51, I want to know what, if any, is the toll on the overseas highway to Key West; what caused the Miami municipal airport fire...
...Key figure in this management is quiet George Doswell Brooke, 36 of whose 60 years have been spent in railroading, 14 of them with C. & O. A crack operating man, George Brooke once taught at Culver Military Academy, plays good golf, is extraordinarily neat. To his friends he is known as "Babbling Brooke" because he says so little. Says Robert Young: "He opens his mouth every other day and devotes the rest of his time to the C. & O." Mr. Young claims that the Guaranty interests would rather see a C. & O. president whose chief interest is in railroad finance...
Last year, NBC's orchestral scouts, seeking talent to build the 94-man NBC Symphony, snooped around the concert halls of several U. S. cities, succeeded in luring key men from the Detroit Symphony and other Midwest orchestras. Symphonic managers all over the U. S. shivered in their boots, fearing that NBC's juicy contracts might tempt their most prized performers. Manager Alfred Reginald Allen of the famed Philadelphia Orchestra tried to placate the NBC menace by offering the loan of his players ''at any time," including his two world-famous instrumentalists-suave Oboist Marcel Tabuteau...
...played a big part in landing quiet-voiced Professor Piston where he is today. At 26, a married man with very little in the way of a formal education, he managed to get enrolled at Harvard, worked his way through, graduated summa cum laude with a Phi Beta Kappa key on his watch chain. A winner of the John Knowles Paine Fellowship, he was sent to Paris for two years to study with famed Pedagogue Nadia Boulanger (TIME...