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State extension service instructor Henry Sullivan joined Dorgan in attacking President Conant. Spat Sullivan, Conant is "invincibly ignorant" and "lacks the ability to give any one academic freedom...
...American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky spat accusations at the Norwegian Government last week for its "indecent and filthy" behavior in placing the Great Exile & Mme Trotsky on the Norwegian tanker Ruth which, chuffing along toward Mexico, provokingly refused to answer radio questions...
...fought last week for the capital. Blood was up on both sides. Radicals and Whites scrambled out of their trenches calling each other names and demanding hand-to-hand fights. After an exchange of machine gun fire, there lay dead 50 Radicals, 50 Whites. With grim determination Generalissimo Franco spat out orders that White officers who could not control their men were to be shot. Meantime White bombers winged over Madrid, plunked seven bombs on the U. S.-owned International Telephone & Telegraph Building, largest structure in the city. In retaliation for Generalissimo Franco's bombing of Madrid on Christmas...
...critical condition of matters international. This Simpson affair has interrupted a far more important matter, the good work of keeping England out of the general imbroglio. The rearming has continued, but that alone is scarcely calculated to relieve the tension. France, refusing to pass judgment on the matriminial spat, has at the same time become quite uneasy over the state of the alliance. England must promptly forget her relatively piffling human interest story, and turn to things that are more realistic and far more consequential...
...hours. Out of low, heavy clouds which had concealed their approach, four big White planes thundered to bomb the slum district of Madrid while three small White pursuit ships strafed the streets with machine guns. Six defending pursuit planes were soon diving on the Whites and anti-aircraft guns spat up at them from Madrid, but all got safely away...