Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least of mankind's fanatic fractions is that vanishing fraternity of motorists who still drive a Model T. Not the kast among them is septuagenarian Ernest A. Franke. a retired baker of Washington, D. C. One day last week Mr. Franke and his 1921 Ford chattered down Pennsylvania Avenue, wheeled into the semicircular White House driveway, and astounded White House police by pausing hard by the Executive Office...
...Barcelona, which had already gone on daylight saving time, Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin shoved clocks ahead yet another hour last week, to save still more electricity. Tap water usually ran in the capital for only a few hours each day. Food shops were on short rations, gone altogether the displays of wines, cold meats, biscuits and pastries of a few weeks ago. In Barcelona last week 28 Rightist suspects were executed by Leftist firing squads, and the worst Rightist air raids in six weeks had killed 30, wounded 50 at latest dispatches...
...Puppets Still Divided...
...Railway in north central China. While General Li Tsung-jen, commander-in-chief of the Chinese Central Army, poured thousands of fresh troops into the heavy fortifications along the Yi River, the Japanese, far removed from their bases, showed signs of weariness. The Chinese "Hindenburg Line" guarding the railway still held fast...
...Still smarting from the heart-breaker North Carolina administered in the form of a 5 to 4 defeat, Coach Harry Cowles' tennis players left yesterday to meet Princeton in Tigertown. Hauck, Burt, Lowman, Gilkey, Captain Sulloway, and Palfrey will probably play, although the order of the last three and the doubles pairings is undecided...