Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spain died in the war, last week's celebrations made it plain that old Spaniards were still trying to run the show. Through 32 months of war and four months of peace, the same pre-war figures kept control of the State and the Army. No new military reputations were made on the Nationalist side of the war. Colorless, efficient General Franco was a familiar face in Spain long before the war, as were Generals Yague, Gómez Jordana, Aranda, Queipo de Llano, most of the old-line Monarchists, officeholders, Fascists, conservative Republicans who backed General Franco...
...reorganization. Forbidden were all gatherings except Catholic religious processions and services. Only with the written permission of Senor Serrano could meetings be held. Only if he agreed could descriptions of such meetings be published. Another blow for independent Generals and Carlists, Senor Serrano's decrees made it plain that the Falangists were winning the peace, that after three years the signs that e war had been fought were far more conspicuous than signs that it was over...
...Kansas City, studied law, was admitted lo the bar. He quit the law because all the lawyers he saw were drunk and a newspaperman told him that if he wrote he would starve to death but, meantime, would always have a lot of fun. He founded a magazine called Plain Talk, which was suppressed for inciting race troubles. So he changed its name to The Pitchfork "because the pitchfork is the poor man's implement; you can fight with it or work with it." When he was ordered never again to publish a political paper in Missouri he moved...
Campaign. With this in mind, the British press plugged hard last week for Mr. Churchill's inclusion in the Cabinet. The London Daily Telegraph & Morning Post, demanding the "best talent available" for a newly constructed Cabinet, wrote: "The plain fact is that when people speak of a reconstruction of the Cabinet, they are thinking first and foremost of the inclusion of Churchill, and it is quite certain that no step would more profoundly impress the Axis powers with the conviction that this country means business...
...month across the Khalka and occupied a series of commanding heights from which it raked the Japanese lines with machine-gun fire. Last week three days of continuous Japanese attacks succeeded in dislodging the Mongol flanks, but the centre clung to its positions. Despite rains that turned the dusty plain into a quagmire, both sides dragged up heavy artillery. Japanese reinforcements were brought up from the rail head at Halunarshan while prisoners were sent north to Hailar on the old Chinese Eastern Railway. A "suicide corps" formed, to drive the last 2,000 Mongols back across the Khalka...