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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last Chapter? In Spain this week the U. S. diplomatic mission at Barcelona was packing up to withdraw toward France. The main force of some 60,000 Spanish Rightists under General Juan Yague, advancing toward Lérida, "the Key to Barcelona," found themselves briefly balked at the Cinca River. The People's Army had blown up all bridges for 50 miles along the Cinca to cover their retreat. Wading chest deep through the icy waters, the 60,000 Rightists crossed at Fraga, which had just been reduced to shambles by 160 Rightist bombers. Pontoon bridges were then flung...
...gutted by fire off the New Jersey coast in 1934 with the loss of 124 lives, closest approach to a hero to emerge from the muckraking Department of Commerce investigation that followed was the ship's chief radio operator, pudgy George White ("Sparks") Rogers. Having stuck to his key until he was hauled out of the radio room half-suffocated, Sparks Rogers was decorated for his heroism by the Veteran Wireless Operators Association...
...Thirty-year-old Harry Florian Wolf is the best U. S. amateur squash tennis player. Serious son of a Montclair, N. J handkerchief maker, Harry Wolf went to Williams, where he played no squash tennis but by diligent study won a Phi Beta Kappa key, by diligent bridge-playing won a wife. After college he settled down to a steady routine of handkerchiefs, squash and bridge, has been monotonously successful in all three...
Famous for the work he has done in converting Key West, Florida, termed by the "Current March of Time" as "Brain Trust Island," from a poverty stricken town into an enterprising tourist center, Stone originally intended to become a professor of organic chemistry...
...Key West presented a particularly stiff problem to Stone. Since the depression which had knocked the town's cigar manufacturing industry flat, most of the inhabitants were on relief and barely subsisted. The once thronging naval and military posts had dwindled down to a skeleton crew of eleven...