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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government claimed to hold territory populated by 15,000.000 Spaniards, with the remaining 8,000.000 in White territory. Putting this another way, the Whites declared that of Spain's 50 provinces they held last week 27 against 22 held by the Government. Because the world's fourth largest gold hoard, $400,000,000, is salted down in the vaults of Madrid's Bank of Spain, eminent Socialist Leader Indalecio Prieto boasted: "The Government will win because we have money, money and still more money!" With all Madrid newsorgans now in Government hands, substantial citizens of the capital...
Seattle's oldest paper was silent for the first time in its 71 years.* Nevertheless, William Randolph Hearst was not without a voice in Washington's largest city. Open to his almost daily diatribes against his absent employes were the columns of the leading afternoon paper, which had fought him tooth & nail since he invaded Seattle in 1921. Clarance Brettun Blethen's Times not only printed Mr. Hearst's pronouncements, but independently condemned the strikers and their tactics. These, it seemed to rich, reactionary Mr. Blethen, were outrageously irregular. The Hearst pressmen were remaining away from...
...Died. Sir Thomas Cullinan, 74, owner of South Africa's Premier Mine, in which was discovered in 1905 the world's biggest diamond (Weight: 3,106 carats-1⅓ lb.); in Johannesburg, South Africa. Cullinan I, largest (530 carats) of the 105 diamonds cut from it, reposes in King Edward VIII's scepter...
Procter & Gamble was to continue to rent the largest amount of air time. With 13 hr. 15 min. a week on National Broadcasting networks, P. & G. will spend some $3,000.000 this year on seven different programs to plug Oxydol, Ivory Soap, Camay, Chipso, Crisco. Because it now uses day time exclusively, Radio's No. i customer is not likely to be inconvenienced this autumn, as will many another advertiser, by the many and unavoidable interruptions caused by the political oratory of a Presidential campaign. As in the past, most of P. & G.'s programs will be serial...
...Manhattan's Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., largest private financial institution in the world, should, on 45 minutes notice suddenly be found to have liabilities substantially exceeding its assets, Eastern U. S. citizens would get some idea of the fantastic consternation Pacific Mutual's crash caused on the West Coast. Last year the 68-year-old company had policies amounting to $636,000,000, assets of $215,000,000, ranked No. 19 in the U. S. insurance lineup. To West Coast insurance, old Pacific Mutual was virtually what Amadeo Peter Gianninrs Bank of America is to West Coast banking...