Word: saviors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Steadily growing in Leftist political, if not military stature is genial, bald, double-chinned General José Miaja, "Savior of Madrid,'' ruler of Southern Leftist Spain, said to have been converted to Communism. His resounding declaration-"Madrid will be the tomb of Fascism"-became one of the slogans of that city's heroic defense. Mysteriously killed in battle was history's first Anarchist general, Buenaventura Durruti, organizer of the first Anarchist militia. Also passed out of the picture is the brains of Madrid's defense-42-year-old, tall, Austrian-born, Canadian-naturalized Emilio Kleber...
...Christianity, which the Jewish people wanted, clashed with Negative Christianity as Jesus himself represented it! . . . Friends, can we risk going with our nation without forgiveness of sins, without that so-called Negative Christianity which, when all is said and done, clings in repentance and faith to Jesus as the Savior of sinners? I cannot and you cannot and OUR NATION CANNOT! 'Come, let us return unto the Lord...
...Behrman seem undecided what to do for story matter. They fall back on the facts taught in schools about their hero's life. Napoleon divorces Josephine (out of camera range). He arranges to wed Habsburg Marie Louise. Marie Walewska is disgusted. Says she: "'The savior of Europe has become a son-in-law." Not until after the retreat from Moscow does Marie have much more to do with the Emperor, except for bearing him a son. At Elba they are reunited and Marie agrees to take a message to his followers, telling them the eagle is returning, cured...
Asked whether college men have any future on the stage, Ed said yes. College men have a certain culture and "savior faire" that is difficult to replace by experience. If the theatre is to survive, Ed thinke, college men and women must take it up as a profession...
...strongest politician on the Leftist side, onetime Bilbao newsboy Indalecio Prieto, sole charge of the War, Navy, Air and Munitions Ministries. For the first time in the Civil War, all the reins of defense and attack were thus in the hands of one man. Spunky General Jose Miaja ("The Savior of Madrid") reassumed civil and military control of the capitol after a four-week interregnum by a Civilian Council. The reinstatement of Miaja, famed for his valor and firmness, was a popular, shrewd move...