Word: signed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though the Leftists had the best of last week's fighting, the Rightists showed no sign of cracking and the end of the war seemed as far off as ever. Most critical battle of the week was to the southeast of Bilbao, the Basque capital which Rightist General Emilio Mola was determined to storm or starve out. Backward and forward swung the bloody struggle for the heights of Saibi Peak guarding the plains five miles from the key city of Durango. Besieged by land, blockaded by sea Bilbao's war-swollen population of 350,000 was reported eating...
Spring. With a Constituent Assembly in the offing this will be an eventful political spring in Cuba, and last week there were many rustling signs of spring among Cuba's politicians. As the buzzards wheeled lazily by day and the business life of Cuba went peacefully on in the sunbright streets and sleepy countryside, at night in the city of Havana the secret conferences of dark-eyed men talking softly and rapidly became longer and subtler and more intense. The Republican Actionist Party of impeached President Gómez, who spent the winter attending exhibition baseball games with ostentatious...
Yesterday's ruling of the Faculty smacks strongly of an opening move against the Faculty's unofficial colleagues, the tutoring schools. It gives no sign, to be sure, of active hositility, and may be only an isolated bolt. At least it has the merit of having been thrown in the right direction...
...onetime civil engineer, a World War aviator-labor daily in their fields and cowbarns. Save when all of them sing their psalms, recite their orisons, or when a few of them maintain necessary contacts with outsiders, these Cistercians speak no word, communicate their needs to one another in sign language. Like their famed but less ancient brother order, the Trappists, they are vowed to silence, poverty, chastity, obedience. Humbly, courteously they welcome and wait upon visitors, accepting alms from the world-weary well-to-do, or nothing from needy wayfarers...
...clothing company is credited with having been the first in the trade to go in for national advertising (1897), first to adopt an "all-wool" policy (1900), first to abolish contract homework (1910), first to sign a collective bargaining agreement (1911), first with the camel's hair coat (1912), first to guarantee color-fastness (1915). Stressed particularly last week was the company's 26 years of industrial peace since it started to deal with Sidney Hillman's Amalgamated Clothing Workers, potent supporter of John L. Lewis's C. I. O. Laborite Hillman, who got his start...