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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Townsend's airedale, an excitable and ambitious dog, chased a 'possum into a corn field and up an apple tree. Undaunted, the airedale jumped up to a crotch in the tree, followed the 'possum out on a limb and leaped to the ground after the 'possum. A little out of wind, the dog scrambled up, chased the 'possum, caught him and brought him back to the Governor...
Suddenly last week the Companys technique did not work at all. Late at night telephone communications with France were mysteriously cut. Hours later the story began to filter out of Barcelona that Anarchists had revolted against the Companys Government. Almost instantly jumbled barricades sprang up along the tree-lined Ramblas. The streets echoed with the Carong! Carong! of machine guns, the Hahp! of light artillery. Immediate objective of the Anarchist Black-&-Reds was the Barcelona telephone exchange, a building almost as imposing as the telephone skyscraper of Madrid. This they seized and held for seven hours. Hero of the revolt...
...honor of George VI's Coronation, Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt took spade in hand, planted two English hawthorns in the Shakespeare Garden of Manhattan's Central Park. Told that a similar spade had once been used to plant a tree there in honor of Edward VIII, the President's mother murmured: "The poor boy. He got into bad hands, didn't he? He was a naughty...
Guernica, a village of 10,000 souls, has a small munitions factory and barracks on its outskirts. Guernica is also the traditional capital of the Basques. To this town Spanish sovereigns, including Ferdinand & Isabella, went to swear by the stump of an ancient oak tree to protect the ancient privileges of the Basque people. The tree of Guernica is prominent on the Basque flag. Basque deputies met biennially in their "Holy City" to legislate...
...Just as worthy, though it can seldom be seen, is its permanent collection, based on the private collection of French masters assembled by the late Lillie P. Bliss. Most popular recent acquisition: The Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dali's famed Surrealist panel of limp watches on a dead tree. Last week preliminary plans were filed by Architect Philip Goodwin for a new building to allow more of this permanent collection to remain on view while the loan shows continue...