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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seems like Britannia not only rules waves of waters but tempers blasts of air, according to TIME, April n under the heading "Inquiring Reporter." The British Admiralty Office in the role of family physician to Mr. Noel Coward's jangled nerves is an astonishing one. the more so since it would appear this august body has the power of prophecy. Two months before the London reviews of Operette appeared to jangle Mr. Coward's poor nerves, Mr. Coward told me and others that he was to be sent on an official visit to the Mediterranean fleet, the dates...
...means of a crude tourist road map. The 'lines' are very rough, there is no regular front at all. What you get is a number of concentrations at various points, with big gaps in between." Three-quarters of the movements in the recent Leftist Aragón retreat took place "without the opposing infantrymen coming into contact at all," observed Sheean...
...Leftists' International Brigades, some of which lost three-fifths of their men and most of their officers in the Aragón retreat, are now reformed for service in the Catalonian, northern half of Leftist territory, reported Sheean. The 15th Brigade, which includes the U. S. Lincoln-Washington battalion, the Canadian and British battalions, is now commanded by a Croat, Colonel Chopic. Its political commissar, John Gates, is a little soft-spoken union organizer from New York. "The Americans in the brigade are about 75% to 80% Communists-a much higher percentage than in other brigades. In the British...
Chairman McNinch comes from Charlotte, N. C., a thriving city of which he was twice mayor. A small but fearless Presbyterian Elder, in 1918 he armed a number of citizens as special police officers during a bloody streetcar strike, survived a recall vote that followed the disorders and picked up a local reputation for political effectiveness. In 1928 he jumped the Democratic Party to work for Mr. Hoover. Mr. McNinch is against liquor (he keeps a vacuum jug of milk on his desk) and Mr. Al Smith is not. President Hoover rewarded Frank McNinch with a seat on the Federal...
Awards are based on an elaborate combination of quasi-popular election and committee choice. Ballots are sent to key women in W. N. R. C. affiliated organizations, radio chairmen and others who are expected to represent radio views of their respective groups. Tie votes are broken by deliberation of a committee which includes American Legion Auxiliary Radio Committee Chairman Mrs. William H. Corwith, Child Study Association's Miss Josette Frank, former W. N. R. C. Chairman Mrs. Harold Vincent Milligan and W. N. R. C. Chairman Mme Yolanda Mero-Irion...