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...closing on Santander. This week with a backing of heavy artillery they swept through Reinosa 40 miles to the southwest-the Basques' prime arms manufacturing centre in Santander Province and a prize rich in zinc mines, lignite, lead, oil-sent packing the Leftists as they tried spunkily to stave off the tide with a house-to-house defense. Meantime in the Soncillo region due east of Reinosa thousands of tons of Rightist bombs lashed down from...
...remaining closed last week and with no agreements signed, it was apparent that John L. Lewis had about lost his strike in "Little Steel." "The C.I.O. failed to meet its first major test successfully," gloated A. F. of L.'s William Green, calling for an intensified campaign to stave off restrictive labor legislation. "We cannot permit all organized labor to be penalized because of the stupid mistakes of C.I.O." Sneered the leonine C.I.O. boss: "Droolings from the pallid lips of a traitor...
...bears a few traces of the days when, from his offices in Radziwill Palace, he governed all Germany. A Catholic who entered the Reichstag as a Centrist Deputy some years after the Republic was set up, Dr. Bruning accepted the Chancellorship in 1930 from old Paul von Hindenburg to stave off and compromise with what the President then regarded as the Nazi Menace. In his two stormy years of office, Chancellor Bruning invoked Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, unwittingly showed Adolf Hitler how to govern Germany without the Reichstag by personal decree. Today many a German believes that...
...been living in Miami since Boss Batista turned him out in January 1934, was proposing to return. Strong though General Menocal is, Dr. Grau, a deep Pink if not a real Red, is even stronger with the Cuban electorate, and Batista might welcome him back as an ally to stave off eclipse by the martial Menocal...
Closely contested all the way, the 200 yard breaststroke was won by Dick Hough Tiger sophomore, who was forced to set a new pool record of 2:29.8 to stave off the threat of Greg Jameson. Graham Cummin too the 150 yard backstroke with Keller in second place, Barker won the 50 yard freestyle in 24.4 seconds as Don McKay placed second, and Rus Greenhood took a third place in the diving to complete the individual events...