Word: fronted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were organized around a quarry. When the big push came, each of these positions received special treatment; Gough a tremendous bombardment just behind his battle line, cutting off his rear completely; Butler, an enveloping attack; the Buffs' quarry, a blasting from field guns brought right into the German front line. So may it go at Forbach, Hornbach, Wissembourg, et al., if & when Adolf Hitler decides to push-or his generals...
...traveled of French statesmen. He is the only one of them who has both run a chain of department stores in Mexico and been successively France's Minister of Colonies, Justice, Finance, who in 1938 yanked France's economy out of the ashcan into which the Popular Front had stuffed it. Last week he jaunted over to London to see Sir John Simon, the cold, grey lawyer who is Prime Minister Chamberlain's Chancellor of the Exchequer. As one of the few French statesmen the British really understand and admire and trust, he was most welcome. Since...
...basic argument for France's having closest economic collaboration from Britain and the support of her banking system and gold reserve was that France has called to the colors five men to Britain's one. While she holds the Maginot Line, Britain should protect the inner front. M. Reynaud and Sir John also agreed that just because there is a war going on-especially a standstill war where the real fighting is economic, by blockade and the capture of Germany's export markets-is no reason why business and commerce should not go ahead in both countries...
...simply a matter of keeping up with the Joneses. It is a question of help ing to keep the little Fuller Brush man out of the Joneses' kitchen for fear that he will soon get into everyone's front parlor...
...Christian Front is an "antiCommunist" organization of followers of the Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin. It is also the name of a loose federation of anti-Semitic societies, with an estimated 100,000 members. Some of these Christians (like the German-American Bund, the Christian Mobilizers), have actually been tut-tutted by Father Coughlin.* Last week the Brooklyn Church and Mission Federation, representing nearly all the Protestants in that strongly Coughlinite borough, sounded off against the Christian Front in no tut-tutting terms...