Word: fronting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Communists the world over, including those in the U. S., took a raincheck on revolution. Object: by joining a "united front" for capitalist democracy, to make the democracies allies of Soviet Russia against Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and Imperialist Japan. Last week world Communists, including those in the U. S., turned in the raincheck, came out from behind their false whiskers, and announced that they had just been fooling: they want their revolution after all. The new Communist name for revolution is "quick transition...
...practical advantage of getting Saarbrücken's coal mines and steel mills back into commission. With 150 German shells coming over daily to establish critical ranges, with German planes reconnoitering busily to discover France's intentions, Forbach promised this week to furnish the Western Front's first clear-cut action, Generalissimo Gamelin with his first strong stand or first strategic surrender...
...Behind the Allied lines, three used German parachutes were found, arousing fear that German saboteurs and spies were beginning to be dropped over. Patrols were strengthened, even at points far from the Front, and officers were discouraged from going about unarmed...
...Philadelphia, trustees of an estate were refused civic permission to carry out their trust: to erect bronze statues of four Revolutionary War generals in front of Independence Hall. Puzzled, they turned the statues of Generals LaFayette, Montgomery, Pulaski and Steuben over to the Philadelphia Orphans' Court...
...British casualty lists was Actor Leslie Howard, 46, victim of an automobile accident in a London blackout. Actor Howard's injuries included a fractured jaw, three broken front teeth, unspecified damages to brow and chest...