Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that even the men who filed the cables grew bored with them. Week after week, month after month they had sent out the same stories: General strike threat. . . . Syndicalists riot in Barcelona. . . . Alfonso denies responsibility. . . . Fall of Government imminent. . . . Street fighting in Asturias and the Basque provinces. . . . Andalusian peasants rebel. . . . Generals arrested. . . . State of alarm declared. . . . State of alarm lifted. . . . All these things were true but the average Spaniard took his daily siesta, went to the bullfight every Sunday, ate a seven-course dinner at 10:30 at night...
Madrid, Oct. 8--The conservative Spanish government, fighting for its existence against the combined assault of extremists in every quarter of the Young Republic, appeared today to have gained complete mastery over the largest rebel strongholds...
...REBEL RAIDER?Howard Swiggett?Bobbs-Merrill...
...Covert is called a "pastor to pastors" because he has sympathetically heard the woes of thousands of his fellows. Tall and stocky, he dresses well, has twinkling eyes and a stubborn shock of white hair, has spoken before 297 local presbyteries. The Philadelphia fundamentalists who founded the ''rebel'' missions board (TIME, April 23), complained loudly before the Cleveland assembly because the General Council of the Church had issued a pamphlet detailing how illegal the board is. Last week, after three hours of clamorous debate, the assembly voted that members of the independent board must sever their...
...they may be taken in by shoddy, like honest homespun better. Readers who passed by The Forge and The Store will do well to retrace their steps, but Unfinished Cathedral stands foursquare by itself, needs no synopsis-guidebook. Col. Miltiades Vaiden, son of a poor blacksmith. Confederate soldier, unreconstructed rebel, has become in his old age the big man of his Alabama town. Banker and pillar of the church, he has left far behind him his wild youth and the ugly rumors that attended his rise to fortune. He is happy with his young wife, his adored only daughter, takes...