Word: victorye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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For your information, the people of the upper section of South Carolina whom you refer to as being "lowborn upstate farmers and mill hands" are descendants of those great patriots who gathered at Kings Mountain to defeat the British Army. This victory led to Cornwallis' ultimate defeat. South Carolina...
Three weeks ago the victorious Franco Government refused free departure to 17 Loyalist refugees lodged in the Chilean Embassy in Madrid. Chile, now governed by a Popular Front government, got very wroth, and Argentina, El Salvador, Venezuela, Cuba, Uruguay and Mexico joined in demanding that the Generalissimo respect the old...
Traveling mysteriously about Japanese-conquered China last week was a suave, subtle Oriental named Wang Ching-wei. Seven months ago this Chinese statesman was one of the powers at Chungking, China's temporary capital; last week he was reported about to become Japan's No. 1 puppet at Peking, seat...
This deal was soon voided when Spain's Republican Government nationalized the potash fields. Since Russian potash (fully occupied feeding the soil of the steppes) was the only other European rebel against Cartel discipline, German and French potash magnates sniffed the rise of a rival Socialist combine. So did...
> German exile Baron Gottfried von Cramm: the London Grass Courts tennis championship, No. 1 tune-up for this week's All-England tournament at Wimbledon (in which he is not entered); defeating Ghaus Mohammed of India in the final, 6-1, 6-3; for his first major tennis victory...