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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...definition of military objectives. Mincing few words, he demanded "as a right" to be granted a belligerent status because: 1) he possesses more territory than his enemy; 2) he maintains a sovereign government; 3) he has an army and air force organized to guarantee order. Charging that vessels have taken contraband munitions into Leftist Spain with Non-Intervention Committee observers on board, General Franco complained that Rightist Spain is now denied the right of search on the high seas, that she is hampered by a list of contraband imposed by the Committee. He complained also that only those foreign volunteers...
...nobody in Yucatan's capital felt wealthy and safe enough to buy an automobile. But many peons now have land, tools and weapons for the first time in their lives, although few of them are making interest payments to the ejidol banks. Since the land cannot legally be taken from the peasants, these land banks lend on the integrity of the peon and his crop-neither very secure. This month the ejidol banks finally exhausted the financial resources which President Cárdenas had been able to put at their disposal. They have kept in business by issuing...
Most popular Calypso singer is The Lion (real name: Hubert Raphael Charles), a young black buck who was taken to Manhattan in 1936 by Ralph Perez, successively a Calypso specialist for Columbia and Decca. The Lion, however, proved the most censorable of the Calypsonians, all of whose records Mr. Perez must submit to British officials before they may be sold in Trinidad. The Lion's share of the 1937 carnival was his song Netty-Netty, voted the most popular by the public, but banned on the island. On sale in the U. S., its words are allegedly unprintable...
...After a series of conversations, President Lamberto Vignoli of Italian Catholic Action and Achille Starace, Fascist Party Secretary, reaffirmed an agreement made in 1931. By this deal, Catholic Action stays out of politics; its leaders may not be antiFascist. In return, the Party guarantees that no measures will be taken against its members who are also members of Catholic Action. In effect, reaffirmation of the deal served notice on Fascist Catholics that they must toe the party line-no matter what the Pope's views on anti-Semitism or other "political" matters...
...accident. Investigators of the Bureau of Air Commerce went to Billings and tried the experiment of recreating the circumstances of the accident. In a similar Northwest plane with the same load they took off under similar conditions and quickly discovered the accident's cause: The pilot had taken off without a long enough run, and his plane had stalled because of inadequate speed. They discovered also on the ship with which they experimented that a mechanism had been installed to limit the forward movement of the propeller pitch-control lever. They looked for a similar mechanism in the wreckage...