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...they were ready, and they were armed. In every part of Spain, with rifles, revolvers, machine-guns, and occasionally light cannon, the revolutionists fought their way. But, to their unbounded disgust, army, navy and civil guards stayed loyal. At least 400 were killed, 1.500 wounded in the bloodiest week-end the Republic has seen. What caused this revolt to fail, like all the others that have shaken the country since the fall of Alfonso XIII, was a complete lack of organization...
...week-end two foreign goats were justifiably tagged. Goat No. 1 was the Government of France, which guarantees to its peasants a price of $1.45 per bu. True to form, the peasants garnered more wheat than France could eat. What it could not eat, France was last week dumping for what it could get.* It was even willing to lay down wheat in Montreal, all expenses paid at a price below Winnipeg...
...Dorothy loves (Joel McCrea) appears, one deception leads to another. To make sure that the young man cares for her and not the Hunter fortune, Dorothy encourages him to make love to the secretary. Equipped with more common sense than perspicacity, he does so until the combination of a week-end in the Adirondacks, a bowl of hot punch and the secretary's husband prod him into a proper proposal of marriage...
With Secretary of War Bern ashore to observe and report on Rhode Island textile troubles (see p. 22), the President declared a week-end holiday from official business. On Sunday he invited Challenger Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith and Defender Harold Stirling Vanderbilt to tea aboard the Nourmahal, chatted about the disappointment of seeing the first race called for time, wished both sides the best of luck and better racing weather the coming week...
Railroadmen were cheered last week, however, by what they took to be White House recognition of their plight. Having lately spent a week-end with President Roosevelt aboard the Sequoia, Editor Raymond Moley led off his main editorial in last week's issue of Today: "No friend of the New Deal is likely to grow enthusiastic over the progress of its railroad policies." And after listing all the railroad's woes, Editor Moley concluded: "There are many complaints from business, these days, that hardly stand examination. But these of the railroads are unquestionably an exception. . . . The Administration has a railroad...