Word: fronted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Deacons Out in Front...
Most of the contributors to Monde Libre's first issue were front-page names: France's Herriot, Daladier, Paul-Boncour, Petain; England's Lord Cecil and Winston Churchill; China's Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek; U. S.'s rugged internationalist, Nicholas Murray Butler. Included among the articles on the economic and cultural advantages of peace and democracy were pertinent observations about the efficiency of the U. S. air force, Britain's navy, France's army. Monde Libre will appear quarterly in French and English...
...hire as doorkeepers in the house of the Lord on copy desks and in editorial chairs men who are free to make decisions . . . not controlled by an itch to move to the next higher desk by pleasing his High Potency who sits in the mahogany paneled room in front of the front of the front office. If owners would encourage a little chronic arthritis of the knee in the lower realms of reporting and copyreading we might come out from the clouds of suspicion that envelop our noble profession at the moment...
...FIGHT FOR LIFE-Paul de Kruif- Ear court, Brace ($3). Front-line description of the latest developments in the war against maternal mortality, tuberculosis, syphilis, infantile paralysis. Strategist as well as war correspondent. Author de Kruif fears the battle will be lost (fine armaments, men and sulfanilamide notwithstanding) without a unified command, universal draft, merciless war on the enemy within-poverty and commercialism...
PHILADELPHIA -- Pennsylvania's turbulent primary campaign drew to a close tonight with John L. Lowis' bid for political control of the nation's second largest state the major issue in a bitter race which shattered the Pennsylvania. New Deal front, Licut, Gov. Thomas Kennedy, Secretary-Treasurer of the United Mino Workers of America, CIO cradle and source of Lowis' financial strength in last summer's battle against "Little Steel," tonight predicted a 100,000 vote victory margin for his CIO state in Tuesday's primary...