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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fort Hamilton, N. Y...
Most embarrassing of all Generalissimo Francisco Franco's followers is the famed "Radio General," hoarse-voiced, bibulous General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano y Sierra, commander of the Rightist southern armies. Once such an ardent Republican that he was exiled by Alfonso XIII, Queipo de Llano quickly turned to fascism, was an active leader in the present civil war when Francisco Franco was still in Morocco. A violent self-advertiser, Queipo de Llano's frequent personal broadcasts have become one of the high spots of the war. When his language grows too indiscreet his own electricians sometimes...
...Wednesday some bookmakers' tents blew down and rain made William H. Cane's Good Time track at Goshen, N. Y. a mile triangle of treacherous mud. Only a few sportswriters, accustomed to the racing of running horses in any kind of weather, grumbled when officials decided that the Hambletonian, greatest and richest race for U. S. trotting horses, would not be run that day. Any oldster, munching sandwiches in the Ladies' Aid booth, knew that a trotter, whose right front leg and left rear leg must move in dancing unison,* has no business trying to speed when...
Archbishop Mooney, whose friends last week were relating that he wept real tears when directed by the Pope to move on from his old post as Bishop of Rochester, N. Y., immediately took up his new duties, first of which was to install Most Rev. Joseph H. Albers, lately of Cincinnati, as first bishop of Lansing, Mich. The Detroit Free Press informed its readers that the city's new shepherd wished to be addressed, not with the formal "Your Excellency," but thus: "'Good morning, Archbishop!' or 'Archbishop, will you have coffee...
...stuff it like an olive," You Can't Have Everything should satisfy almost everyone else. It gives the clowning Ritz Brothers the opportunity to extract the last zany twist from such sequences as playing a swing version of chopsticks, dressing as charwomen to break into the Y. W. C. A. To adept Song Pluggers Alice Faye and Tony Martin, Mack Gordon & Harry Revel have supplied a tiptop score of which the most singable numbers are the title song, Please Pardon Us, We're in Love, and Danger, Love at Work...