Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been practically swallowed by the Valencia regime, which fortnight ago moved its Spanish Leftist Government in on them at Barcelona, but that after 18 months of playing at war, they are about to be subjected to the fiercest offensive El Caudillo Franco, his Italian, Moorish and German allies can muster. United Press Correspondent Irving Pflaum, visiting the Aragon front last week, got this amazing dispatch past Catalan censors...
...eight Japanese transports to seek safety farther down the river. Day after day, Japan's long-heralded Big Push was postponed, finally got under way at week's end, with small success. Although the Japanese struck on a wide front, apparently with all the force they could muster by air, from the water and on land, the Chinese held firm, lost 500 men to the enemy's 1,000 on the first day of the Big Push...
...order was expected by wire at this San Francisco Council meeting,* and Harry Bridges was out to vote defiance, to order a referendum on joining C. I. 0. He failed for the time being because William Green quietly went to bed without sending the telegram, and Bridges could not muster the three-fourths vote necessary to carry his motion in committee-of- the whole...
Evidently Harvard and Yale reached their peaks in last week's dual meet, for while the Crimson participators turned in a worse than average performance to gain 11th place in the team scoring Yale could muster only four and a half more for eighth place. Pitt and Columbia, the two favorites, battled it out to the last event, from the results of which Pitt became the champion by half a point...
...plebiscite, they would be voting to disenfranchise themselves; if they voted No, they would be voting against freedom for the Philippines. Setting up a loud clamor, they finally got a clause inserted that would restore suffrage to literate women of 21 or over if they could muster 300,000 affirmative votes at a plebiscite within two years after the Constitution was adopted...