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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TUCKER Thomasville, N...
...regular Army, but assorted Leftist political groups began drilling and equipping little armies or militias of their own: the C.N.T. (National Confederation of Labor); U.G.T. (General Union of Labor); F.A.I. (Iberian Anarchist Federation); the P.O.U.M. (United Marxist Party); etc., etc. Among the most colorful was the "Batallón de los Figaros," a battalion composed entirely of barbers and hairdressers which later did yeoman service. Two nights after the Rightists first rose in arms, new Leftist Premier Jose Giral opened the jails and distributed truckloads of rifles, handed out in the slums and factory districts of Madrid. The workers...
...best to suppress Leftist murder squads in Madrid in the earliest, bloodiest days of the war. In Morocco twelve years ago he and Francisco Franco were good friends, at a time when Franco and Miaja could not stand the sight of each other. On the Aragón front since last May, General Pozas has been able to: 1) bring the recalcitrant Catalans into the fight, 2) capture Belchite, and 3) hand over to his subordinate, General Rojo, the successfully prepared offensive which spectacularly took Teruel (TIME...
Interior: Ramón Serrano Suner, brother-in-law of President Franco...
Adjutant William B. Plews of the Volunteers of America (Salvation Army offshoot) was once a vaudeville magician called "William the Great." For the last nine years he has been preaching in his spare time, without much success. Last week, in Rochester, N. Y., his announcement that he would perform tricks (to help religion meet "pretty bad modern competition") filled his Volunteers chapel. Adjutant Plews's first stunt was to impersonate St. Paul in prison at Philippi, in padlocked chains and an unscriptural mail-sack. He prayed for God's aid, escaped in a couple of minutes from...