Word: sided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barcelona Government, after nearly a month of yielding stubbornly-held ground on the south side of Generalissimo Franco's salient-to-the-sea, last week hurled a whacking good offensive across the Ebro into the north flank of that salient. Shock troops for the advance were chiefly five columns of foreign Leftists, forming the spearhead of Barcelona's drive, under command of up-&-coming General Vicente Rojo. Soon wounded in the back by a bomb fragment was James Lardner, son of late Funnywriter Ring. In Manhattan, portly Leftpundit Heywood Broun announced that Ring Lardner was the only genius...
...insisted on a new style of lettering on the coin, on changes in the detail of Thomas Jefferson's head on the obverse, on Artist Felix Schlag's redesigning the reverse so as to show Jefferson's home Monticello in front view instead of side view. After dies for a new coin are complete it takes five weeks till enough can be minted for simultaneous release throughout...
...Once again intolerance has raised its head in the midst of our political picture. ... If Mr. Winrod is nominated for the U. S. Senate, it will again be injected into the national campaign and our party in Kansas will be on the wrong side of a vital issue. . . . Disastrous effects!" Candidate Winrod, in his weekly radiorations over two Kansas stations and in his monthly magazine, The Defender, has made noises like a fascist : taken slaps at Jews and Catholics, gone hard after all Communists. Vowing that he is no fascist, he says: "Fascism is the illegitimate child of Communism...
...matchless deviltry; adolescent Gilbert (Jackie Moranj finds his voice cracking just when he needs dignity most; Lally Joy (Virginia Weidler), thrifty Storekeeper Popham's girl, wears her button shoes on the wrong feet every other day to keep the heels from running over too much to the side; beau-aged Nancy and Kitty (Anne Shirley, Ruby Keeler) get in & out of sweetheart tangles without a scratch. Mothering this engaging brood is mature Actress Fay Bainter, probably the nearest cinema has to the Mother Carey Mrs. Wiggin had in mind. RKO had originally planned Mother Carey's Chickens...
...economic improvement is a system of freight-rate disparities which favor the North. Last week, before an Interstate Commerce Commission examiner in Buffalo, N. Y., the second battle in their campaign to remove these disparities came to an end. In Birmingham, Ala., three months ago, the South presented its side of the complex controversy; in Buffalo, the North had the floor. ICC will now ponder whose victory would be best for the U. S. as a whole...