Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...able to hold its wedding only when another Soviet-German pastor, Herr Michel, whose Lutheran church is in Leningrad, rushed 500 miles to Moscow where genial U. S. Charge d'Affaires Loy W. Henderson gave the bride away. Intention to found a U. S. church in the Red Capital was definitely abandoned last year after Dr. Walter William Van Kirk of the American Section of the Universal Christian Council went to Moscow and discovered to what lengths Soviet bureaucracy was prepared to go to thwart him. It was estimated unofficially that $100,000 would have to be paid...
...Madrid will fall in from three to five days," predicted its besieger, Generalissimo Franco of Spain's White Army fortnight ago. Last week, still outwardly confident and smiling, the Generalissimo in effect admitted that the Red militia of Madrid had fought his Whites to a bloody standstill when he issued this order to his officers: "Make no further attempt to take Madrid until our present positions have been consolidated...
...southwestern sections. Day after day the besiegers tried in vain to thrust across three of the river's bridges and battle their way into the city. Under a blanket of acrid smoke, White shock troops violently attacked Los Franceses Bridge, failed to enter Madrid only because the Red militia blew up the bridge and captured three White tanks that had wormed their way across the river into the Radical lines. The Red militia outnumbered the White Army last week and had received many additional airplanes. In Barcelona, the capital of Radical Catalonia, where he had fled a month...
Meantime Fugitive Premier Francisco Largo Caballero's Radical Cabinet, from their refuge in Valencia, rushed food and ammunition back to their Madrid comrades by railroad, for a successful sally by the Red militia had resulted in effective communications being reopened between Madrid and the seacoast. As 40 new Red planes of an unmistakable French pattern roared over the Capital, thousands rushed into the streets to welcome them with hysterical cheers...
...week passed another milestone by dedicating a new $500,000 home, a six-story stone building at Park Avenue and 57th Street, remodeled and air-conditioned. Since 1853 the American Bible Society's Bible House had been a landmark in fusty, downtown Astor Place. From its big old red brick building, it has sent out 135,000,000 Bibles and texts in 972 languages and dialects to all parts of the world. Bible House still belongs to the Society, will continue to be used as a storehouse for $2,000,000 worth of printing plates for Bibles...