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November 11, 1936

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Headlines from November 11, 1936

Reich Bans Name Alcazar For Bars as Too Sacred

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Reich bans use of name Alcazar for bars

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WIDE MADRID AREA SET AFIRE BY BOMB; FIGHTING IS HEAVY; FIRE FORCE IS HELPLESS Buildings Are Blown Up but Flames Spread, Lighting the Sky. FORCES LOCK ON WINGS Loyalists Report Driving Back Foe on West and South, but Rebels Also Claim Gains. CITY IS SEVERELY BOMBED Many Missiles Are Dropped on Defenders -- Shells Also Cause Great Damage. Loyalists in Counter-Attack WIDE MADRID AREA SET AFIRE BY BOMB

By William P. Carneywireless To the New York Times

Fire spreads through 40 blocks in western qr of capital; 2 Rebel air raids inflict more damage in city's center; Loyalists claim to have driven Rebels back toward Humera in fighting in Casa de Campo, and toward Villaverde in battle at southern end; anarcho-syndicalist organization distributes leaflets urging precautions against Fascist sympathizers; Catalan reinforcements arrive; Defense Council makes decisions for preservation of order; Rebels assert victories in Villaverde region, and in Casa de Campo, claiming penetration into University City area; broadcast by Queipo de Llano

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Only 9,000,000 Now Idle, Commerce Experts Find

By the Associated Press

Dept estimates 9,000,000 unemployed; will seek appropriation for survey

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GOAL IS TO SAVE REFORMS; Studies Under Way to See if Main NRA Tenets Can Be Salvaged. CHILD LABOR BAN SOUGHT Other Objectives Are the Right to Organize and Maintain Standard Labor Conditions. PRESIDENT MOVING SLOWLY Silent on Exact Desires, Merely Wanting Facts in Hand on His Return From Cruise. NRA SALVAGE PLAN STUDIED IN CAPITAL

By Turner Catledgespecial To the New York Times

Roosevelt orders studies of possibilities of achieving principal goals on labor legis through Law based on O'Mahoney bill; provisions include regulation of hours of labor and wages based on indus efficiency

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HOARE DENIES TIES OBLIGATE BRITAIN TO DISPATCH ARMY; No Commitments Like 1914's for Sending Men to Continent Exist, He Tells Commons. INSKIP OUTLINES REARMING Nets Between Balloons Will Guard London in Air Raids -- Paris Arms Outlay Huge. HOARE DENIES TIES ON SENDING TROOPS

By Charles A. Seldenspecial Cable To the New York Times

Sir R Keyes advocates abolishing dual control of Air Ministry and Admiralty

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1936Jack Keller, American songwriter and producer (died 2005)^[†]

Jack Walter Keller was an American composer, songwriter and record producer. He co-wrote, with Howard Greenfield and others, several pop hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including "Just Between You and Me", "Everybody's Somebody's Fool", "My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own", "Venus in Blue Jeans" and "Run to Him". He also wrote the theme songs for TV series including Bewitched and Gidget, and later worked in Los Angeles – where he wrote for, and produced, The Monkees – and in Nashville.

Headlines from November 11, 1936

Reich Bans Name Alcazar For Bars as Too Sacred

Only 9,000,000 Now Idle, Commerce Experts Find

HOARE DENIES TIES OBLIGATE BRITAIN TO DISPATCH ARMY; No Commitments Like 1914's for Sending Men to Continent Exist, He Tells Commons. INSKIP OUTLINES REARMING Nets Between Balloons Will Guard London in Air Raids -- Paris Arms Outlay Huge. HOARE DENIES TIES ON SENDING TROOPS

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