Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Laymen, who have puzzled over the many seesaws of Spain's war, with victory now teetering on the side of the Leftists, now tilting back to the Rightists, could thank the Satevepost last week for a professional military analysis of the war by Major Thomas R. Phillips, faculty member of the top-rank U. S. Army Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kans...
Ability. Carefully labeling his views as his own and not official War Department opinions, Major Phillips wrote in a vein contrary to most previous expert opinions on the war: "Franco has been almost constantly on the offensive and has been everywhere successful, excepting his failure to take Madrid early in the war. The [Leftist] government army has shown itself incapable of sustained offensive action. Each of their costly offensives has had some initial success, and finally bogged and fell back when Franco brought troops up to counterattack. Troops with amateur commanders and amateur staffs cannot maneuver, they only stumble...
...lobby for passage of the American Youth Act. Unimpressed by foreign crises, nationwide Recession or the advisability of attending to their homework, the "pilgrims" were in hope that a parade, attendance at Senate subcommittee hearings and their innocuous yodelings would persuade Congress to pass a bill of which the major intent is to provide part-time jobs for the youth of both sexes between...
Last week Broadway producers got their worst smack in the face in years. Five major playwrights-Maxwell Anderson, Robert E. Sherwood, S. N. Behrman, Sidney Howard, Elmer Rice-curtly announced that they were going into business for themselves, as a group...
...major exhibition of architecture and city construction in the Soviet Union will be held in Robinson Hall from Monday, March 21, through April...