Word: landing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leftists last week continued the game of distracting General Franco. As long as they can punch him from one side, make him turn in that direction, then punch him from the other, they can keep him from following his own plan of battle. In the process they might possibly land a lucky haymaker. Meanwhile General Franco, fighting not only the Leftists but the heat which reached 113°, relied chiefly on his sun-baked Moorish riflemen, last week made relatively little progress in straightening out the dents in his fronts...
After a three-month study of Britain's year-old proposal for slicing the Holy Land into British-mandated, Arabic and Jewish States, members of His Majesty's Government's technical commission last week sailed from Haifa for London. Their pilgrimage to the Holy Land had been marked by an intense wave of Arab-Jewish terrorism. As the members departed, Britain's Colonial Secretary, youthful Malcolm MacDonald, arrived by air, spent two days secretly inspecting the security measures Britain has been forced to take...
...with headquarters at Damascus, have set up their own civil and military courts. Arab villagers prefer to take their squabbles to Oozlebart civil courts, which apply Islamic law and charge nothing (Palestine court fees are notoriously high). Oozlebart military courts dispense quick justice, sometimes death, to Arabs caught selling land to Jews...
...show that Foreign Secretary Hay meant business, the Mexican Official Gazette announced on the day the note was delivered that 1,800 acres of pasture land in the State of Jalisco had just been confiscated from Dora and Oscar Newton, U. S. citizens. In point of plain fact, Mexico had told Mr. Hull to go jump in the Rio Grande; that U. S. citizens who own little as well as big properties in Mexico will get paid for their seizure when, as and if the Mexican Government feels like it. All he proposed was that the two Governments appoint representatives...
Three weeks ago, when Douglas Gorce Corrigan landed his nine-year-old plane in Dublin and cracked a joke about having started out for Los Angeles, the U. S. press crowed with delight. Still crowing last week, they did more than their share in the celebrations that marked the hero's return. Star reporters wrote front-page stories in fake Irish dialect. As a million people watched him go up Broadway, Corrigan's modest self-assurance set Manhattan's press crowing louder than ever. Said F. Raymond Daniell of the Times: "A hero with his tongue...