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Spain has an extreme political fringe to the Right, its only true Fascist Party, called Falange Española (Spanish Phalanx) which did not win a single Cortes seat in the election. Its chief is the handsome, 34-year-old lawyer-son of Spain's famed Dictator under the monarchy, the late General Primo de Rivera. Eldest of a hot-headed trio of born troublemakers, José Antonio Primo de Rivera was closeted with Adolf Hitler shortly before Germany's 1934 Blood Purge, returned to Spain in time to lead his blue-shirted pistoleros against Spain...
...York City's Mayor LaGuardia, New Dealers both, piled quotation on quotation, leaving no doubt whatever that Roosevelt I, like a Christian before Christ, had blessed the New Deal 20 years before its birth. Listening in silence on the platform and in reserved seats below, sat a phalanx of Roosevelt I's descendants, good Republicans all. including Alice Longworth. But the only rebuke offered by the children of Roosevelt I to Roosevelt II was made by Theodore Roosevelt Jr. who, in the course of personal anecdotes, smilingly remarked that those who had just said such kind things...
...named Jerome ("Jerry") Louchheim, countered by insinuating that Nominee Kelly's backing was largely Jewish. On election day 715,560 Philadelphia voters went to the polls, the greatest number in the city's history for any kind of election. What evidently settled the matter was a solid phalanx of Republican jobholders. Forced to hang together or risk losing their bread & butter, Republican ward leaders somehow patched up the quarrels which had kept them wrangling since the death of Boss William Scott Vare. Boss Yare would have been glad to know that his successors managed...
...Personal animosity toward Dictator Mussolini appeared to spring at Geneva last week so clearly from Captain Eden that he began to get daily threats in impassioned Latin scrawls. (Sample: "Pig! Somebody ought to stick you!") Ultimately Scotland Yard operatives and Swiss detectives flung a veritable phalanx around the British Minister. He got safely away to London when Geneva finally shut up shop last week, League statesmen dispersing to the capitals in which their proposed sanctions are being considered...
...crowded knickknack splendor of Buckingham Palace one day last week Queen Mary's costly phalanx" of long case clocks marked a fateful teatime. James Ramsay MacDonald's last hour as Prime Minister was striking...