Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newlyweds, the Dankowskes nosed the 1 6-year-old Nomad out of Chicago toward California. Fondly beaming on Wife Mary, Fred Dankowske announced that they would keep on to the end of the trail. Said he: "This is the finest kind of life. It costs only $160 a month and you see the dreams you carry in your heart...
...Seville. When Franco took Madrid, Don Juan Ignacio got his paper back and immediately began publishing it in the old way: calling for the restoration of Alfonso. Franco tried to get rid of Luca de Tena by offering him an embassy, but Don Juan Ignacio refused. Last month A. B. C. published a defiant pro-Monarchist editorial. Next thing its readers knew, it had encountered a "shortage of paper" and folded...
...less gentle than his treatment of the Rightist press has been Serrano Suñer's way of dealing with those journalists who supported the Republic. Last month all Spanish newspapermen got orders to present to the Government copies of what they had written against Franco during the civil war. By last week 35 of these journalists had been shot. Among the 35: Antonio Hermosilla, editor of Madrid's Leftist La Libertad; Modesto Sánchez Monreal, editor of Madrid's Leftish El Sol; Emilio Gabás, onetime editor of Madrid's El Socialista; Federico...
Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, 47, was born in London, son of a U. S.-born chairman of Anglo-American Oil Co. Dapper, well-nosed, greying, Bliss is rated as a modernist with a sense of humor. Last month Manhattan heard the world premiere of a Bliss piano concerto, showy, noisy, built for big-muscled virtuosos and played (with the Philharmonic-Symphony under Sir Adrian Boult) by just such a pounder: a British onetime prodigy whose concert name is now simply Solomon...
Recently a German Government station stepped up its power, came in louder and chummier than General Electric's broadcasts from Schenectady. Last week General Electric announced a crushing countermove. Ready to go into action within a month is a new 100-kilowatt shortwave transmitter, most powerful in the U. S., known as "Big Bertha." It has directional antennae that will enable it to focus its beam on particular areas. Through G. E.'s two Schenectady stations, W2XAF and W2XAD, Big Bertha will broadcast in Portuguese to South America's eastern half, in Spanish to the western half...