Word: win
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After twelve days of fierce fighting Rebel Generalissimo Francisco Franco's "win-the-war" offensive against Catalonia temporarily slowed down last week. At week's end the red-&-gold Insurgent flag flew over two sizable new bulges of terri tory totaling about 750 square miles. If Insurgent troops pierce another 16 miles into Catalonia to take Artesa, then Barce lona, the Loyalist capital, will be seriously threatened...
...Radicals with the Socialists, Radical Socialists and Communists, took the field against the landlordly Rightists. Infuriated with Rightist President Arturo Alessandri for suppressing their Putsch last September, 15,000 Nacistas (Nazis) on the eve of the election joined the Popular Front's political hodgepodge, helped Lawyer Aguirre win by a slim 3,000 majority...
...totalitarianism, and Robin Hood, whose real name, according to White, was Robin Wood. (The W slurred off, and recent highbrow scholars, thinking 'ood a Cockney abbreviation, added H.) After all his adventures the Wart still has strength enough to pull the legendary magic sword out of the anvil, win the right to be King Arthur...
Frank Powers was the hero of the evening, if' one can be named. His 2:20.2 220-yard free-style win is a creditable early-season time. He also won the 100 free...
Died. General Severiano Martinez Anido, 76, "The White Terror," Minister for Public Order in Generalissimo Franco's Spain; in Valladolid (see p. 16). General Anido had been mentioned for the post of dictator if the Rebels should win...