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...used, but whom correspondents were able to describe as "well known for works he has exhibited at the Carnegie art shows in Pittsburgh."* ¶ The physical work of impounding, packing and shipping to safety Madrid's works of art is in the hands of the Communist Fifth Regiment. Its work is not limited to protecting known works in churches, museums and public buildings. Daily the homes of aristocrats and other Rebel sympathizers are raided, the zealous comrades proudly hustling cartloads of worthless chromos, plaster statuettes and other knick-knacks back to the Junta. ¶ Though the Prado has been...
...Among them: the Chaco, which is settled really only in so far as Bolivia and Paraguay have temporarily exhausted their economic resources; an ephemeral revolution in Ecuador, where a regiment last week revolted, set up their artillery on a hill and put a few shells into the Presidential Palace...
...Marie Gustave Gamelin, recently investigated his War record and cleared him of desertion. Enemies cracked back that General Gamelin did not head an official Commission of Honor but only acted in concert with two veterans' organizations, and that anyhow the still-living French officers of Salengro's regiment all say today in Paris that he was a deserter, and they ought to know. Friends retorted that, in Germany, Prisoner Salengro organized an attempted revolt of 40 other French prisoners and for this got two years in one of the Fatherland's jails, which in France should...
...they are not she is-the ultimate refinement of a rare and delicate artifact, the distilled essence of a Movie Actress. Extremely commonplace is the background of Mary Magdalene von Losch, born in Weimar, Duchy of Saxe-Weimar, Dec. 27, 1904. Her father, Edward von Losch, lieutenant in a regiment of Prussian Grenadiers, was stationed there. In 1915 von Losch was killed at Kovno on the Russian Front. After the War Marlene decided to try acting, changed her name to Dietrich, enrolled in Max Reinhardt's school in Berlin. To get money she worked as an extra...
...gasoline sold than on the profits made. By turning dealers loose more or less on their own, they automatically started shaking down an artificial market into a natural one. They were also pleased to think that by creating a somewhat diminished host of little fellows out of a regiment of cogs they were aiding in the Decentralization of business, favored at Washington...