Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the terms of the Labor Pact, officially recognized last week by the Italian and German Governments, immediate exchange will begin between the two countries of workmen, labor leaders and foremen to mingle and study each other's methods. Italians will show off their nation-wide Dopolavoro ("After Work") organization with its traveling theatres, touring movie projection units and sport recreation centres of all sorts for Fascist workers. In Germany the similar organization has been copying the Italian model fast, outstripping it in the matter of proletarian pleasure cruise ships now slated to take the unprecedented number...
...week the big Moscow newsorgans continued to print no details of Russia's current series of "Trotskyist" executions. For this major news correspondents still had to comb copies of local Soviet newsorgans as these reached the capital. Neither in Moscow nor in any other office of the world-wide Soviet official news agency Tass could information be had about the Director of Tass, Jacob Doletsky. who so far as his Moscow journalist friends knew "simply disappeared" two months ago. In 1934 at the high point of his international journalistic career Doletsky signed up Tass with the Associated Press...
General Franco's G.H.Q. tersely admitted that Madrid General Miaja was making "the most violent drive the enemy has ever attempted." According to the Leftists their advance swept westward of Madrid in a swath ten miles wide and ten miles deep. They claimed to have taken six strategic towns, including Brunete, while according to the Rightists this objective was never quite reached. On the northwest side of Madrid the Rightists remained entrenched in suburban University City, their "foot in Madrid's door." After five days of what all agreed had been some of the hardest troop fighting...
With lazy indifference Mexicans faced a nation-wide election last week. In Mexico City, a town of over 1,000,000 inhabitants, only 3,000 handed in votes. Everyone seemed certain that the National Revolutionary Party of stocky, able President Lázaro Cárdenas would win. They were not mistaken. With the voting booths not yet closed President Cárdenas triumphantly gave out that his party had won 160 of the 173 seats in the Chamber of Deputies...
...Science last week appeared a report announcing discovery and classification of a great stream of galaxies, the greatest of metagalactic clouds. It is 50,000,000 light-years long, 20,000,000 wide. Discovered on plates taken at Harvard's Southern Hemisphere station in South Africa, it lies athwart the sky near the Fouth celestial pole. Fifteen thousand galaxies or "island universes" were counted in it, all of them below the 16th magnitude in brightness. At first the cloud was classed simply as a "major irregularity." But the savants at Cambridge reasoned that it must contain at least...