Word: partings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front for their union, C. I. O.'s adherents played a smart trick on Homer Martin. When he began to lose his grip on the executive board last year, one member who stood by him was Mr. Thomas. Only when Murray & Hillman intervened did Martin and Thomas finally part company. Thus Homer Martin had to eat many an old word last week when he accused his onetime friend of sabotaging the union...
...Catalonia-an area about the size of Connecticut. Some brigades had 120 men left out of a normal complement of 1,500. Some companies had only 25 rifles and no machine guns. And as a further sign of demoralization, behind it the People's Army left a large part of what stores of food and gasoline remained...
...present it seems that the moment for plain speaking has arrived, and is in fact overdue, and the soldiers appear to think the same. The southern part of the Republic is starving and isolated without war material. It is all over now, and those who have most admired the courage and pride of the Republic must hope only that the survivors will obtain mercy from the fascists...
...fissures to get rid of them. Their water mains and pumping stations smashed, many parched survivors scooped their drinks from dirty ditches and contaminated wells. Puckish and unsated, the elements drove icy winds down from the Andes, and on the winds rode storm clouds which dropped on the shelterless, part-injured, part-naked, part-diseased population one of the most violent rainstorms Chile has ever...
Gunga Din (RKO Radio), most expensive picture in the history of RKO, which was last week on the point of emerging from a six-year bankruptcy, unfolds a jolly story about high jinks on India's frontier. Poor old Gunga Din (Sam Jaffe) has small part in the proceedings. In the first part of the picture he wobbles about carrying a goatskin water bag. In the last part, he inspires a scared-looking Rudyard Kipling to produce a commemorative poem. The rest of the time Gunga Din's doings are eclipsed by those of three agile young sergeants...