Word: pe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...represented* rose to embarrass Host Lombardo on this point nor did any of the big three "fraternal delegates" present: French Trade Union Tsar Léon Jouhaux, whose dues-paying followers number 5,000,000; the Minister of Justice of Leftist Spain, famed Ramón González Peña, who has personally fought fascism in the Asturias by lighting sticks of dynamite from the end of his cigar and hurling them where they would do the most good; and John L. Lewis of C.I.O...
...Lewis, M. Jouhaux and Sr. González Peña took no active part last week as Sr. Lombardo Toledano and the other Latin Americans proceeded to found a Federation of Latin American Workers, which adopted a constitution, made Mexico City its headquarters, provided that its president must reside there and then elected Vicente Lombardo Toledano first president. In flattering compliment to President Cárdenas, who last week won for Mexican Federal employes the right to strike, the constitution borrowed almost the exact words of a recent Cárdenas radioration as its charter: that "the principal task...
...force in frontal attack, while Rightist Generals Garcia Valino and Aranda swept around the Leftists' wings, met behind them and then swept on toward the Mediterranean in a 16-mile-wide offensive. Twenty miles of coast, from the outskirts of San Carlos de la Rápita to Peñiscola were in Rightist hands by week...
Every able-bodied man in Leftist Spain was promised by Premier Negrin death before a firing squad unless within 72 hours he should volunteer for the People's Army. The new Minister of Justice is picturesque Ramón González Peña, an Asturian firebrand who led squads of dynamite-throwing miners against the Rightists in the early days...
...smallest star (5 ft.) on the U. S. stage has one of the longest tempers, rarely permits herself a more violent expression of dissatisfaction than her characteristic "Pe-ew!" But last week Helen Hayes was feeling particularly good. There were the White Blouse invitations. ("To think, here I was born in Washington and never imagined I could get in the White House back door!") And, with a pair of noteworthy Queens already in her hand, she was reasonably sure of drawing three of a kind on Broadway this week...