Word: marched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pobo Mountain front, just northeast of Teruel which has been quiet since March, Rightist troops under General Jose Varela seized the Leftist key stronghold, Escorihuela, prepared for an offensive against the Teruel-Sagunto highway. On the north Catalan front, brisk Leftist counterattacks regained several strategic villages and Barcelona restored contact with "the Leftist Lost Battalion" (43rd Division). "We prefer to fight where we are with our backs to the French frontier!" announced its commander...
...Welles's story is all Mercury Theatre, but the Mercury Theatre was a lot of things before it became Broadway's wonder child. It was first just an idea, bounded north & south by hope, east & west by nerve. Crossing their Rubicon before they even started to march, Welles & Houseman leased the Comedy Theatre for five years, renamed it the Mercury, then started looking for their first play. When they found Julius Caesar, they started looking for the money to produce it. Houseman combed Wall Street, got dibs & drabs, enough to keep the cast stringing along and repair...
...society page of the New York Herald Tribune one day last week appeared the following item: "Mr. and Mrs. Debar de Brunhoff, of Paris, announce the birth of triplets, Pom, Flore and Alexandre, early in March in Paris. The entire family is now in New York visiting Mrs. Richard A. Kimball (Josephine J. Dodge) at 714 Madison Avenue. Mrs. de Brunhoff is the former Miss Celeste d'Aguillon, of Paris...
...March 1 the chemistry class of Verdun High School, near Montreal, released a hydrogen-filled 5? balloon with which they had been experimenting. Last week they received this note from Singapore, Straits Settlements, about 14,000 miles away...
Most railroad officials, however, feel that solution of the railroad crisis is not a question of complicated legislation but a simple issue of increasing income or reducing expenditures. The former was ruled out when ICC last March refused to raise freight rates more than 5.3%. So last week the Association of American Railroads, meeting 100-strong in Chicago, took the Splawn report at face value, voted to cut railway wages 15% as of July I. Estimated saving: $250,000,000 a year...