Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last month Leftist Spain accepted the plan with only a few minor reservations.This week Rightist Spain told Great Britain that it too ''accepted the principle" of withdrawal of foreign volunteers. But larded into General Franco's "acceptance" were so many Rightist complaints, demands, objections, charges and refusals that, in effect, it was almost a flat rejection...
...Tass backed up its torture tale by declaring that the Soviet Embassy in Tokyo has been ordered to protest the treatment given the captain and crew of Refrigerator No. 1. Since Russians and Japanese are still arguing over their bitter full-dress battle on the Manchukuoan border earlier this month, the affair of Refrigerator No. 1 did little to promote the amicable spirit needed for a settlement...
...show that he meant every word about the 40-hour week M. Daladier sent Senegalese troops to work as longshoremen on the docks at Marseille. Glistening with sweat, the Senegalese-sharpshooters all-carried backbreaking loads of cabbages, asparagus, oranges, lemons, which for the past month Marseille longshoremen, having worked their 40 hours, have refused to move at night or on Sundays...
...tools and weapons for the first time in their lives, although few of them are making interest payments to the ejidol banks. Since the land cannot legally be taken from the peasants, these land banks lend on the integrity of the peon and his crop-neither very secure. This month the ejidol banks finally exhausted the financial resources which President Cárdenas had been able to put at their disposal. They have kept in business by issuing 12,000,000 pesos of fiat money, are authorized by the State to issue...
...argument about that project which has involved its creator, Beniamino Benvenuto Bufano, with the City Fathers, the Franciscan Order, the Archbishop of San Francisco, the Federal Art Project and, last and most lathered of all, Columnist Westbrook Pegler. Mr. Pegler discovered San Francisco's proposed colossus early this month and slapped it square on the button...