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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most popular of U. S. heroes is a crusading young district attorney who cleans up dirty local politics. In real life, for half a century, he or his impersonator has turned up periodically in all parts of the U. S. In fiction his reappearances are almost continuous-twice within the last fortnight in cinema alone (TIME...
...were tentatively offered to both factions. Held out to Rightist Spain was the plum of belligerent rights which would legalize a blockade of Leftist Spain's ports. For Leftist Spain was a tempting offer of a "proportionate withdrawal" of foreign volunteers. Since the Rightist Army has at least twice as many Italian and German soldiers as there are French, Russian, British volunteers in Leftist trenches, for every soldier removed from the Leftist ranks under the "proportionate withdrawal" plan, two would come from the Rightist battalions...
...Thompson to write Dorothy Thompson's Political Guide, published this week, the author does not reveal. Miss Thompson, who calls her book "the intelligent Woman's Guide to Isms," approaches the fulminating Fabian in garrulousness and dogmatism, but falls far behind in endurance-her book is only twice as long as Shaw's table of contents...
...nominated to run for Congress on the Communist ticket. Her opponent: Paul Kilday, who last month defeated the incumbent, rip-snorting Maury Maverick, for renomination. Nominee Kilday's brother is San Antonio's Chief of Police Owen P. Kilday, Emma Tenayuca's bitter enemy and twice her host when she was jailed for civil commotions...
...clerk in his National Park Service, came on from Washington. Present also was Henry Adams Ickes of the U. S. Housing Authority, who claims no kinship to Harold at all. Doings: prayers, speeches, house-to-house gossiping, the unveiling of a stone marker honoring Nicholas Ickes, twice-married Revolutionary who fathered 20 children, founded the town in 1816. Greatgrandson Harold sent a letter of regrets...