Word: militiamen
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...Marine Minister Indalecio Prieto splashed out in Madrid papers the grim fact that in Madrid there were no more potatoes, fresh eggs or butter, scant meat or sugar and hardly any milk or olive oil. To these challenges the proletariat rose as 20,000 enlisted to fight as Red Militiamen-in a day and crowds kept milling around the Spanish Lenin's office, causing Largo Caballero to emerge from time to time on a balcony with clenched fist upraised and shout, "La victoria es nuestra! Victory is ours...
...later California Dancer Florence Miller of a Canadian vaudeville troupe known as The Tony Wine Com-pany which has been playing Catalonia, got out of Barcelona after all members of the company had been "conscripted" by the radical militia and put to work giving five shows a day for militiamen with the threat that anyone who refused to dance, sing or wisecrack would be considered a "Fascist" and shot. Said Miss Miller: "Everyone, ham actors and $500-a-week stars, were paid exactly $1 each per day, plus a meal ticket. We could eat on our tickets at the Ritz...
...went raving mad, shouted Biblical curses at her maid. Feeble-minded Nancy picked up with a raiding British soldier, bore his child in the woods during an attack, was saved by an Indian who took her for his squaw. Organized warfare in the wilderness was a prolonged nightmare, with militiamen quarreling with regulars, regulars making more enemies by attacking the wrong Indian tribes. When General Herkimer, superb Indian fighter, led 800 militiamen against Butler's force of a thousand British regulars and Tories and a thousand Indians, he was driven into an ambush by his cocky, inexperienced officers. After...
Comrade Stalin, who took his first ride on the third day of the free "dress rehearsals," was most interested in the escalators installed in two of the stations. He had never seen one before, rode up & down twice. The moving staircases terrified most Communists. Militiamen were told off to hold nervous women by the hand...
...Stresa on the blossom-dotted rim of Lago Maggiore sprang to life. Excited Fascist workmen ripped up the main street from end to end. They had all but demolished the stuffy little station when an architect front Rome arrived, his mind full of modernism and marble. Snappily accoutred Fascist militiamen and plainclothes agents in all conceivable disguises arrived to put Stresa and its basking tourists under careful scrutiny. "Now that Hitler has defied the world, and Nazi agents are kidnapping and even murdering small fry abroad," said a Fascist corporal of militia grimly, "who knows what outrage can be expected...