Word: taken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe, Senator, that you have ever taken the oath to support the Constitution of the United States with less reservation than I have, or would now, nor do I believe you are more attached to the theories and practices of Americanism than...
...Washington's Colonel O. R. McGuire. The report recommended that each Federal agency: 1) publish its detailed rules & regulations within 90 days after the law it administers goes into effect, and 2) set up a special three-man dispute board to review contested decisions before they are taken into court...
...temples and wines and fortress, changed masters again last week. This time the city fell, with scarcely a shot fired, before the attacking legions of Spanish Rebel Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Actually a Roman ruler supplied guns, ammunition, warplanes and some of the warriors with which Tarragona again was taken, for Tarragona's capture was as much Dictator Benito Mussolini's triumph as Generalissimo Franco...
...before the Franco advance clogged all roads as the Loyalist Army retreated. Hundreds of Rebel planes bombed and strafed roads and bridges. For the Loyalists there was one slight consolation in the battle for Catalonia: their retreat was orderly, they allowed no great number of their soldiers to be taken by the Rebels, few Loyalist supplies were left behind...
Hard fighting was still ahead for the Franco troops before Barcelona could be taken, although the Generalissimo claimed that victory for him was inevitable. Even from his headquarters came the admission that no immediate capture of Barcelona could be expected. For the Generalissimo there have been many moments before in the 30-month war when victory seemed to be in his grasp, only to be snatched away by a sudden Loyalist stiffening. Eleven o'clock has struck many times before for the Loyalists, but one thing was certain last week: the well-trained but poorly equipped Loyalist Army would...