Word: fronted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reform," the FORTUNE Quarterly Survey this week put labor unions first. Reforming unions was twice as important as reforming public utilities or stock exchanges, ten times as important as reforming the Supreme Court, even 35.6% of factory labor put union reform first. Among executives, 52.9% put it out in front...
Since Premier Benito Mussolini is an omnivorous newspaper reader, French journalism was thus last week doing the Spanish Leftists the worst possible disservice, for this week II Duce was able to hurl at the French Popular Front Cabinet of Léon Blum threats that unless France stop such shipments of munitions, Italy will take measures of intervention far beyond any she has yet taken. Declared Informazione Diplomatica, the most highly authoritative newsorgan controlled by the Italian Government: "Such intervention would have unpredictable and certainly very grave repercussions and might compromise peace on the European Continent...
...found this week in Aragon, in Catalonia or in Valencia, but in France. The army, navy and air force of the French Republic are among the most powerful in Europe, but was it certain that French Premier Leon Blum, although he heads a Popular Front Cabinet, wants France to fight on such an issue...
...downs were staged at the Farman, Caudron and other vital French warplane factories. All this was extremely peaceable, without riots or even the summoning of police, but everyone remembered that in 1936 over 1,000,000 workers walked out as a means of: 1) pressing the first Popular Front Cabinet of Premier Léon Blum to legislate promised vital concessions to Labor; 2) coercing his political enemies of the Right into abandoning some of their opposition. Last week the workers appeared in an unorganized way to be again trying to drive and lead Léon Blum...
...scullery, into a cinema star's boudoir. In spite of Actress Lombard's strident earthiness, the result is as unearthly as Actor Gravet's French-flavored, concave British inflection, as wooden as Charlie McCarthy-whom Actor Gravet, in claw-hammer coat & starchy shirt front, resembles more than he does Windsor...