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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army, but assorted Leftist political groups began drilling and equipping little armies or militias of their own: the C.N.T. (National Confederation of Labor); U.G.T. (General Union of Labor); F.A.I. (Iberian Anarchist Federation); the P.O.U.M. (United Marxist Party); etc., etc. Among the most colorful was the "Batallón de los Figaros," a battalion composed entirely of barbers and hairdressers which later did yeoman service. Two nights after the Rightists first rose in arms, new Leftist Premier Jose Giral opened the jails and distributed truckloads of rifles, handed out in the slums and factory districts of Madrid. The workers and released...
...civil war began in Spain, lovers of far-fetched political analogy have cocked their eyes at Mexico, speculated on what would happen if Mexican Fascists started something. Nobody paid much attention to these surmises until U. S. Representative Jerry J. O'Connell of Montana observed to reporters in Los Angeles three weeks ago that "Mexico will undergo a Fascist revolt in 60 days." Wild rumors started flying up & down the Mexican-U. S. line, and Texans contracted a fine case of border jitters. Soon in the Mexican expatriate hangouts in Laredo, Brownsville, El Paso appeared portly General Nicolas Rodr...
...Colder signed up Joe Louis to make a picture for $15,000, right after Louis had beaten Welsh Tommy Farr in his first defense of his world's heavyweight championship. By the time Joe reached Hollywood, Producer Golder had collected a dusky crew of professionals from downtown Los Angeles, planned an all-Negro story that would more or less parallel the Brown Bomber's shuffling clamber to fame. Taking on a wonderful waxworks-plus-minstrel-show quality from its principal player, Spirit of Youth will certainly not be duplicated for many a moon...
Week, they approached Los Angeles broadcasting stations suggesting programs of MacDowell's music. Every Los Angeles station cooperated enthusiastically. The following year the two colleagues broadened the scope of their festival, enlisted National Broadcasting Co., Columbia Broadcasting System and nearly 60 independent stations...
...California Chain Stores Association hired the big Chicago advertising agency of Lord & Thomas to help it defeat a chain-store tax (TIME, Nov. 9, 1936). Lord & Thomas put young Theodore W. Braun on the job. Ted Braun had made something of a reputation as a marketing counsel in Los Angeles. As general manager of the anti-chain-store-tax campaign, he taught California farmers that the chain stores were their customers and friends, and the tax was defeated. As part of Ted Braun's anti-tax campaign, the National Association of Food Chains, represented by the heads...