Word: battlefronts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nipping of that fingernail. In another sense, it was a major victory of the war, for it took the initiative away from General Franco just as he was about to launch his long-planned drive and induced him to pour his reserves of men and munitions into the battlefront chosen by his opponents. Apparently it ended the danger of a surprise Rightist offensive at any other point for months to come. Psychologically it was just as important to Leftist morale. By a swift, well-executed triple-column movement Leftist arms had captured the strongest point yet in the Rightist line...
REMBRANDT would have liked to paint poor but honest Frau Pauline Hauptmann who on Nov. 20, 1899 at Kamenz, Germany gave birth to Bruno Rich ard Hauptmann, accused of extorting ransom for the return of the Lindbergh baby, suspected of the kidnapping and murder. Apple-cheeked Bruno saw battlefront service, was 19 when the War ended. He came through unscathed, undistinguished, but two brothers were killed. After the War he broke his mother's heart by turning out to be the bad boy of Kamenz. He served one term for theft, escaped a second by breaking jail. Twice he entered...
...face seen by the world of common men. Here are ranged the handful of interpreters who tell plain citizens what is going on up near the attacking point. Some are lay observers with scientific grounding like Bertrand Russell and J. W. N. Sullivan. Now and then physicists on one battlefront or another pause to deliver philosophical interpretations. Thus on the mathematical front Dr. Planck, now an enthusiastic Nazi, year ago published a book on the nature and limitations of physical science. On the experimental front pious Dr. Millikan, who believes the cosmic rays are by-products of the creation...
Hawk-nosed Lord Wellington used to figure the presence of Napoleon on a battlefield as worth 40,000 men to the French. Observers agreed last week that the presence of white-headed General Hans Kundt, onetime German imperial staff officer and de facto dictator of Bolivia, on the jungle battlefront of the Gran Chaco was worth at least 5,000 men to Bolivia. Following the hysterical, flower-strewn welcome to him in La Paz three weeks ago, a huge airplane was seen circling over the battlefield last week. Open-mouthed Bolivianos in their steaming trenches told each other that...
Helpmates. The Roosevelt campaign was by no means being carried along by the nominee alone. Already on the stump or itching to take it was an assorted chorus of vociferous henchmen the like of which was nowhere to be seen on the G. 0. P. battlefront. That no Republican was alert enough to bunch these Democratic helpmates?by no means the cream of the party?and point with alarm to them as the ''men behind Roosevelt," was viewed as a reflection upon the intelligence of the Hoover managers...