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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Toledo's new Red workers militia, one Comrade Daniel Ovalle, admitted that the Whites still held the Alcázar, asked whether he should shell it. On Aug. 4 tentatively and one by one at intervals Reds popped 60 4-in. shells at the Alcázar without result, telephoned into the fortress to tell Commandant Moscardó: "We warn you heavier shells will come." On Aug. 11 cadets shot a cavalry mount for meat and mobsters standing at a safe distance shrieked at the military academy: "You fools! Why don't you surrender...
Three days later the Chilean was still appealing to the Alcázar without result. "If I succeed," he declared, "it will be the success not of the Ambassador of Chile alone, but of the entire Diplomatic Corps, which I have the honor to represent as Dean!" By this time nearly three weeks of Red mining and sapping had stowed away under the rocky base of the Alcázar not the "20 tons of TNT" but something like four tons of miscellaneous explosives equipped with electric detonators 200 feet long. In Madrid the Cabinet, dramatically convened, agreed with Premier...
...falling over her shoulders." Yindrich meanwhile found a "pretty girl'' from Buenos Aires amiably acting as interpreter for a Soviet cinema cameraman who had arrived from Moscow to film the fall of the Alcázar for worldwide Communist purposes. According to Ptlaum and Yindrich, net result of the GRAND BLAST operation was apparently the death of not a single White, the deaths of some 50 militia...
...mallets of four Argentine poloists knocking the ball through the goal posts four times in each of the last three chukkers of a game against the best team in the U. S. Score for Argentina when the game was over was 21-to-9-most one-sided result of a first-class International polo match on U. S. records...
...generalization has often been shown. Professor Frankfurter's influence in the New Deal has always been an interesting myth, and, even the slight power he had in 1933 has since vanished. Professor Sprague was an adviser with the stamp of Harvard too strongly upon him, and as a result was dropped from the New Deal wagon almost as soon as he had hitched a ride. If prominent New Deal agencies employ young lawyers from Harvard Law School, the corporation offices of New York are even more saturated with them...