Word: listers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only did the Loyalists face vastly superior armaments, but for the first time in the war they were outnumbered in soldiers in the field. Commanded by their best military brains-Generals Juan Sarrabia and Enrique Lister, Colonel Juan Modesto-the Loyalists employed the only possible methods of fighting under such conditions -i.e., slow retreat, then localized counterattacks. They hoped for a spell of bad weather to cripple the Rebel offensive...
Sixty years ago, when the revolutionary ideas of Lister and Pasteur were beginning to gain credence, there was no medial school in the U. S. worthy of the name. American students went abroad to do research, learn surgical and laboratory technique. In 1883 Daniel Coit Gilman, head of Johns Hopkins University, heartened by a $3,228,000 bequest from the Quaker founder of the school, began scouting for distinguished professors who would form the nucleus of a great U. S. medical faculty...
Marriage Revealed. Margot Grahame, 27, British cinemactress who once advised young people to "plunge into matrimony''; and Allen McMartin, Canadian multimillionaire; near Montreal, a few days after her divorce last month from English Actor Francis Lister...
Divorced. Margot Grahame, 27, British cinemactress (The Informer) who once advised young people to "plunge into matrimony": from English Actor Francis Lister: in Reno...
...longer in the military news is Leftist General Sebastian Pozas (TIME. Feb. 14), whose army ran in panic on the Aragon front. Instead there are Leftist chiefs like Enrique Lister, leader of Madrid's famous 5th Regiment, nucleus of the People's Army, in charge of the defense of Catalonia, switched recently to the Valencia front. Generalissimo Franco's most trusted henchmen now are Generals Miguel Aranda, Rafael Garcia Valino and José Varela, each in charge of one of the three prongs of the Valencia drive. Last week General Varela's Castilian Army Corps...