Word: sided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Schuch held up a South Side bank last fortnight, using a curling iron and two vials of water as a "gun" and "nitroglycerine...
...James Lafayette Horace is the Negro parson of Monumental Baptist Church on Chicago's South Side. Lately he has been annoyed by receiving invitations to join the Illinois Automobile Club, written on stationery which explains that the club is for "white persons only." Last week Parson Horace took action. To the I. A. C. he wrote...
...night last week the 1,650-ton Spanish Loyalist destroyer Jose Luis Diez got up steam, weighed anchor, laid down a smoke screen and left Admiralty Harbor, on the Atlantic side of Gibraltar. Scarcely had she moved from the British-protected waters before her crew saw rockets flare from a housetop on the Rock. No one needed to tell them what those flares meant: they were signals from Rebel watchers notifying Rebel warships patrolling the Straits of Gibraltar that the Jose Luis Diez, having waited for weeks to make her getaway, was trying a second time to run the blockade...
Meanwhile, all Gibraltar had been aroused. Shells fell in the little village of Caleta, on the east side of the Rock, destroyed two houses, damaged a power plant, wounded four British subjects. General Sir Edmund Ironside, commander-in-chief of Gibraltar, sounded an alarm, called out the entire British garrison. The British destroyer Vanoc and a French destroyer, the Basque, went to investigate. Gibraltar's guns fired blank shells to warn the Rebel warships that they were firing on British territory...
...Italian troops were about to march over the border from Italian East Africa (Eritrea, Italian Somaliland and Ethiopia) and seize the country. As long as 18 months ago, Paris colonial officials noted that detachments of Il Duce's troops had occupied areas on what was probably the French side of the ill-defined French Somaliland-Italian East African border. For weeks the fascist radio station at Addis Ababa had broadcasted predictions that the French would be pushed out of Somaliland into...