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Meanwhile, northeast of Madrid, Rightist forces have pushed a long finger down from Zaragoza toward Valencia in the hope of cutting the communication line between Madrid and the sea. Theoretically responsible for this Teruel east front is the Leftist city of Barcelona, second largest in Spain, but Barcelona has been so busy with its bloody squabbles between Anarchists, Communists, Socialists and Left Republicans that it has been disgracefully lax at the front for almost a year...
...National Bar Association (Negro) held its annual convention at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in Philadelphia, surveyed the place of the Negro in the legal profession, found it discouraging. With a U. S. Negro population of 11,890,000 there are but 1,247 Negro lawyers. Of the largest group, Washington, D. C.'s 225, over half are "sun-downers"' who work at political jobs days and practice law evenings. New York City has 112 Negro lawyers, mostly in Harlem. In the entire South there are but 200. Southern Negroes are either too poor...
Last week, however, the Hammer Galleries was able to stage an exhibition to attract the attention of serious art critics. From its own large stocks, eked out by a few loans of friends, they presented a collection of 194 Russian icons covering seven centuries of Russian painting, the largest collection of Russian icons ever shown...
Into Detroit one day last week pulled a special train bringing Archbishop Edward Francis Mooney to head the newly created Detroit archdiocese, fifth largest of the 17 in the U. S. (TIME, June 14). His pince-nez flashing, tall Archbishop Mooney descended to the platform where Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy and a representative of the city's Mayor Frank Couzens waited to shake his hand...
Quarantined in an isolation nursery at Callander, Ont. lay Emilie Dionne, third largest (31¾ lb.) of the famed quintuplets. Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe said the ailment was a respiratory infection, inexplicably " obtained from outside sources." Five days later her four sisters were caught in the rain and all developed colds...