Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, persistent air bombings continued to take their tolls not only of Leftist Spain's civilian population but of British ships, British seamen. Typical daily list of civilian casualties read: Alicante, 30 dead, 118 injured; Valencia, 17 dead, many injured; Segorbe, 12 dead, 30 injured...
...counted, it seemed to matter little that a lot of other candidates were nominated for a lot of other offices; that former Senator Lester Jesse Dickinson beat Representative Lloyd Thurston for the Republican nomination for Senator. Looming with a significance precisely equal to what others of other States might read into it was the Democratic Senatorial result: Gillette over Wearift by about 2-to-1. Three other Democratic candidates polled negligible votes...
...Bombs. At a Washington press conference Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles read a Roosevelt-approved moral indignation statement condemning "ruthless bombing of unfortified localities" as "barbarous." Significantly added was the statement that the U. S. still adhered to a non-intervention policy. Night before, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, speaking in Nashville, declared that the U. S. was willing to join in a conference at The Hague for "humanizing" war practices. To an English invitation to America to join in the bombings investigating committee, the U. S. seemed likely to decline, however...
Liberals and Laborites read into Sir Thomas' statement a threat to conscript labor in wartime. Only recently His Majesty's Loyal Opposition forced Prime Minister Chamberlain to stop toying with the scheme of general registration of all citizens, the first step toward nationwide conscription. "As soon as war is declared the generals and the brass hats will be in charge of the whole resources of the country," howled Laborite Aneurin Bevan last week. Two days later, with His Majesty's Loyal Opposition still peppering Sir Thomas, the Prime Minister himself was forced onto the floor...
...Pugh, however, was a prominent anti-Machenite: the man who, in 1934, was credited with perfecting the legal devices by which fundamentalist followers of the late Dr. J. Gresham Machen were read out of the Presbyterian Church. As a sudden, random gesture of conciliation toward the Machenites, the nominating committee last week picked a dark horse. The gesture was so random that the dark horse. Rev. Paul Coverly Johnston of Rochester, N. Y., had gone home unaware he was nominated. He telegraphed his withdrawal, whereupon Dr. Pugh won hands down...