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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American activities Mr. Dies has brought principally a $25,000 appropriation, a willingness (common to Congressional ferrets) to hear what he believes, a succession of renegade leftists, ex-union officers and members turned talebearer, avowed spies, patriotic citizens bursting with information about the Reds. Mr. Dies also has taken testimony about U. S. Nazis and Fascists, has even accepted aspersions against such personages as Tom Girdler. But in the main he has stayed on the Red trail previously traversed by New York's Representative Hamilton Fish...
...dawn John Deering was taken to the prison courtyard, strapped in a chair, a cap over his head, a target over his heart. At Sheriff S. Grant Young's orders, five deputies raised their rifles and John Deering got what he asked...
...months little military activity has taken place on Spain's Madrid front. Last week, at several points southeast of Madrid on the Jarama River, Leftists repulsed small isolated Rightist punches. To some observers these attacks were regarded as feelers preliminary to a new Rightist offensive aimed at encircling Spain's former capital...
...week Alexander Kerensky commented that he talked recently with a former fellow prisoner of Nin in the Madrid jail where Nin was held for a time last year. The fellow prisoner told Kerensky that the jail was then in charge of Soviet Russians, and that he believed Nin was taken from Madrid to Moscow. The prosecution insisted at the trial that Nin escaped from Madrid to the Rightist lines, but he has never been reported in Rightist Spain...
Four silhouette pictures of each boy are taken as a part of the record. This is done previous to his medical examination so that a graphic permanent record may be discussed with each student in the examining room as part of his physical education...