Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since the start of Spain's Civil War the world press has been flooded with stories about the wanton destruction by both Rebels and Loyalists of Spain's important art treasures. Several U. S. correspondents in Madrid have now taken time off from reporting the siege to file the most complete reports yet made on the whereabouts of the art treasures of Madrid. Their conclusions: ¶ On Aug. i a committee known as the Junta of Requisition & Protection of Artistic Patrimony was organized to classify and protect Madrid's treasures. Head of the Junta...
...weeks ago correspondents saw it being loaded on a truck for shipment to the coast, packed in a crate that cost the Leftist Government 7,000 pesetas. ¶ Bombed and destroyed by Rebel planes was the Duke of Alba's gigantic Liria Palace, but it had already been seized as a museum, its paintings shipped to the coast. In Valencia last week paintings of the Duke of Alba, which the general public has never had a chance to see, were put on public exhibition...
Another was the enmity of the American Federation of Labor, with which John Lewis and his "rebel"' C. I. O. unions are now contesting for the mastery of U. S. Labor (TIME, Dec. 7 et ante). In Detroit and Cleveland, city labor councils voted to back the U. A. W. strike. But local councils are small potatoes in the A. F. of L. patch of jealous craft unions. First Federation gun was fired last week when the Cleveland heads of the Plumbers', Machinists', Electrical Workers' and Bricklayers' unions sent Fisher Superintendent Scafe a joint letter...
...theatre, and audience were all conducive to a performance of Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre"; the first was wet and sombre like the moorland wastes of Yorkshire, the second complementary to the Victorian setting, and the third the stiff, conservative type of people like those most shocked by the rebel novel in 1847. Not that the audience did not laugh in the wrong places at the nineteenth-century sentiment; not that they weren't amused at Jane Eyre's maidenly chastity: the way she folded her hands when she sat down before her master and was careful that the needles...
...your Dec. 14 issue, p. 17, I find the following quotation, purporting to be from a speech made before the Southern Society of New York by Virginia's Senator Carter Glass: "Jube Early was an unreconstructed rebel to the day of his death. He used to come frequently into my newspaper office and one day he said to me: 'Carter, I had hoped to repent my past sins in the hope that when I died I would go to heaven and see Robert E. Lee. But I have changed my mind. I want to go to hell...