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...militias of their own: the C.N.T. (National Confederation of Labor); U.G.T. (General Union of Labor); F.A.I. (Iberian Anarchist Federation); the P.O.U.M. (United Marxist Party); etc., etc. Among the most colorful was the "Batallón de los Figaros," a battalion composed entirely of barbers and hairdressers which later did yeoman service. Two nights after the Rightists first rose in arms, new Leftist Premier Jose Giral opened the jails and distributed truckloads of rifles, handed out in the slums and factory districts of Madrid. The workers and released persons who thus were given arms, plus the "Alphabet Militias," were all there...
...last time Henry Fonda appeared on the Broadway stage he was skippering an Erie Canal boat in The Farmer Takes a Wife. His sleepy-eyed, lethargic charm has since done him yeoman service in Hollywood but somehow seems a bit too somnolent now that he is back in Manhattan on his sailboat. Doris Dalton makes a pleasingly limber heroine...
General Pozas has already done yeoman service in restoring order in Barcelona and trying to get a Catalan army to take the field. At a bound the capture of Belchite set Sebastian Pozas right among the hierarchy of the Valencia Government, seemed to make him a figure very much to be counted on in the next few months. This was hard news for extremists. Sebastian Pozas won his general's sash long before the civil war. Privately he hates anarchists as much as he hates foreign fascists...
...Robert Edward Brooke, grandson of Matthew. President since 1933 has been hard-bitten John Edward McCauley, onetime machinist's apprentice, who states in his hoarse steelman's voice that the C. I. O. "hasn't got us yet" and that Tom Girdler is "doing a yeoman's job for all of us" (see p. 9). With total assets of $2,400,000, Birdsboro employs 800 men, had gross sales of $3,000,000 last year, net income of $233,000. The stock of this company, whose story would make a perfect Joseph Hergesheimer novel, has always...
...CHILDS Yeoman, Third Class, U. S. N. U. S. Naval Training Station. Norfolk...