Word: ola
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...room shack on the Meadowbrook Farm near Merced, Calif., Mrs. Ola Harwell, 26, was reading the Bible to her husband Woodrow, itinerant cotton picker, and her two small sons: "Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee," read Mrs. Harwell from the Book of Matthew, "cut them off, and cast them from thee. . . ." "Amen," said her family. She shut the Bible with a snap. "My right eye and my left hand have sinned," she said. She took a pair of scissors, went to the woodshed, stabbed at her right eyeball till she gouged it out. She took a heavy...
That was on July 18, 1936. Five days earlier Europe had been warned of the extent of unrest in Spain by the murder of Monarchist Deputy José Calvo Sotelo, onetime Finance Minister, at that time head of the Monarchist organization Renovatión Española. He had been taken from his Madrid apartment by uniformed Assault Guards of the Spanish Government, delivered dead to a cemetery caretaker. Sensing a big story, knowing that armed guards were patrolling Spanish cities, newshawks in Paris woke up string correspondents along the Spanish border, put in a call to Oran, in French...
...killed scores more in clashes in the dense thickets of the Navarre border territory. A few prisoners managed to escape to France and there revealed that many of those who took part in the escape were not Leftist prisoners of war but Rightists, members of the Falange Española, clapped in jail for attempting a revolt against Rightist Generalissimo Franco...
...reported imprisoned because he had publicly rebuked the Dictator for indiscriminate bombings and the employment of German and Italian assistance (TIME, May 23). Last week. Callender revealed that General Yague had gone much further. General Yague is a popular Left-wing leader of the Falange Española, the blue-shirted group of some 1,000,000 members, officially recognized as an instrument of the State much like Il Duce's Fascists. To a group of these in a Burgos theatre, General Juan Yague last month announced: "Our leader [General Franco] has said that no home shall lack bread...
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