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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vigilante" first became a popular U. S. word in the 1850's when California's citizenry undertook to discipline the more irrepressible of those who went West for gold, gambling and glamor. Instead of dying out with the establishment of law & order, Vigilantism in California remains a potent and honored means of squelching those suspected of Communism. Typical was the treatment accorded last August to Silva M. A. ("Jack") Green, sign painter. and Sol Nitzberg. chicken raiser. Reds who promoted an apple-pickers' strike in Sonoma County. One night a band of unknowns seized Green and Nitzberg...
...most dangerous enemies of the free schools in America. It is time these busybodies were told what their ancestors fought for. . . . Many of the members of the D. A. R. of today, had they been alive in 1776, would have been Tories. . . . The American Revolution of 1776 was a popular uprising of the workers, and the labor unions of today are the true inheritors of this tradition...
...small talent budget. Though Lucky Strike's weekly Your Hit Parade is played by routine bandsmen, it offers this season a unique merchandising trick characteristic of American Tobacco's rampant, sensation-loving President George Washington Hill. The program purports to present the week's 15 most popular songs. Mr. Hill promises to give a carton of his cigarets to every listener who correctly predicts, in order of popularity, the first three songs. By last month, the "Lucky Strike Sweepstakes" had used 150 tons of application blanks. Biggest week drew 6.500,000 replies. Biggest weekly give-away...
...tourists, flying them to Seville, whence they jounced by bus to Cadiz, boarded the U. S. cruiser Oklahoma and were taken to British Gibraltar, mostly dead broke. French tourists in Granada were not permitted to leave by officers of the Revolution, keenly suspicious that the French "Popular Front" Government of Leon Blum is helping the Spanish "Popular Front" Cabinet in Madrid...
...basic policy that Britain must oppose whichever power on the Continent is strongest, lest it overwhelm her in the end. Today an important Cabinet faction close to Squire Baldwin holds that "the strongest European power" is now not any one country but the international Socialist-Communist forces of the "Popular Front" which have taken both France and Spain by ballot and are trying in a dozen countries for more sweeping victories. Britons knew what to think last week when, although there has been no battle in Madrid, 733 political opponents of the Government were revealed to have been killed...