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...naval battle off the Danish coast between the fleets of Great Britain and Germany, in which, although the British lost 14 ships, 6,274 men and the Germans eleven ships, 2,545 men, Britain gained mastery of the seas for the remainder of the war. † On December 21: retaken on February 22 by Franco...
...points about this greatest battle of the war. Because Rightist planes won and kept control of the air throughout the battle, there had been no reports to contradict Franco's claims and for a week the press had been misled into believing that most of Teruel had been retaken by his troops. Actually, through the ten bloody days it lasted, the Rightist counteroffensive never touched Teruel itself, got no closer than four miles from the city. Evidence from other sources indicates that the three U. S. and British correspondents with Franco's army killed by shell fire...
...backward, it seems no loss than a nightmare that business should have been handed a blank check, as it was under General Johnson, to 'govern itself' with no thought for the consequences. . . Much of the power which largo industrialists have secured for themselves with government sanction will never be retaken from them." It is this in the New Deal that I object to; it is this objection which any honest person should object to. It is the taxing of the bread and meat of the poor that I object to; it is the encouragement given by the Federal Government...
...boards makes it much more possible to look at problems from several angles instead of only one. for a long time to come, however, public gains will be realized only slowly, and much of the power which large industrialists have secured for themselves with governmental sanction will never be retaken from them...
...scheduled premiere. Nazi critics present at previews had hailed it as "the German screen's greatest masterpiece," and "a glorious tribute to our Nazi Martyr Horst Wessel." Last week Dr. Hanfstaengl emerged triumphant when the Horst Wessel film, renamed Hans Westmar, One of Many and extensively retaken, but still "with music by Dr. Ernst Hanfstaengl" was released before a Berlin audience which included former Crown Prince Wilhelm...