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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complained that they had bought record quantities of picture postcards, almost nothing else. But there were nearly 5,000 delegates-more than the Republican and Democratic convention delegates combined-and as many more visitors. If they were genuinely representative, they meant that there were millions of oldsters like them throughout the land, each with a vote, each with 10? per month for Townsend Club dues. On that assumption, the nation's ablest rabble-rousers battled last week for their allegiance...
...masks will not be distributed wholesale throughout Britain but will be kept in central storehouses in every village and town. "Local authorities," read last week's announcement, "will provide facilities where masks may be tried on and fitted. It is hoped that the public will take advantage of the opportunity...
...regulars and Moorish native troops. Within a day the rebels controlled all Spanish Morocco, a 200-mile strip of coast across from Gibraltar. When they began broadcasting from the Ceuta radio station, pretending to be the Seville station, announcing the surrender of Madrid to the rebels, sympathetic Army garrisons throughout European Spain joined the revolt. They were defeated in Barcelona and Seville but seized the southern ports of Cádiz and Málaga for a landing by the Moroccan rebels, skirmished in Burgos, Pamplona, Valladolid and Zaragoza. Government planes soared over strongholds dropping, first bombs, then leaflets urging...
...crops, if more slowly. Cattle need water, need feed even more. Since 70%, of all crops go for forage, U. S. farms mainly serve as meat factories. Last week the beef cattle situation, though it made no great headlines, was causing the Department of Agriculture its principal worry. Throughout the stricken cattle country water holes and ponds had dried into cakey mud. Unless farmers could raise a bumper autumn crop of forage, which seemed unlikely, cattle would die by droves this winter. One of the states hardest hit by the drought of 1934, which reduced the total U.S. cattle herd...
...reasons they gave for the killings they perpetrated have been incorporated by the present Japanese Cabinet into its announced program. It was typical of Japanese Justice that, while 17 sentences of death were meted out and all proceedings of the trial kept secret, the War Office released for publication throughout Japan the full text of the reasons given by the assassins for assassinating...