Word: start
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biased is TIME, but Reader Lamar, who does not have all his facts straight. General Franco did not start the Spanish revolution. The revolt's military leader was José Sanjurjo, killed in an airplane crash on the third day of the war. General Franco's army of 450,000 contains at least 300,000 Spaniards by the count of the Spanish Embassy in Washington...
...Hawkins took it to the Michigan Supreme Court. Last month the Supreme Court Justices found the election a draw, ordered the two politicians to decide the issue by lot. Last week they pulled slips out of a hat. Newton Hawkins got the slip lettered ELECTED. Promptly he promised to start suit for the $2,000 salary William Voisine drew while he was illegally president...
...make herself right with her Maker." And Earl, she said, had not only killed James Bassett. When he was younger, in Montana, he had killed three other people. He had been disguised as a clergyman at the time, which must have given State Patrol Sergeant Joseph McCauley quite a start. When she was taken to Earl and taxed him with his crimes. Earl said, "Ma, do you feel all right?" But two days later he confessed, too. The State Parole Board let Mrs. Smith out five days early, and she went to Seattle with State Police carrying shovels...
...secured the arrest, conviction and sentencing to 18 months' imprisonment of Carl von Ossietsky for the crime of editing articles which could be construed as divulging to the enemies of the Fatherland what was already an open secret known to all Europe-that Germany had from the start violated the Treaty of Versailles by clandestine rearmament, even under Chancellor Stresemann...
...relief, Jimmy Durante holds down the other end of the program in a picture entitled "Start Cheering!" It is a college musical, with a winning football team, a crooning hero, and lots of co-eds. While this type of life is not to be envied, it is sometimes fun to watch...