Word: phalanxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the civilian parade began more than a million Russians marched across the Red Square in a solid, seemingly endless phalanx more than 100 ft. wide. At sight of Dictator Stalin, who wore a Red Army cap and bluish grey "semimilitary jacket" (said Moscow papers), each new group of workers burst into "spontaneous cheers." Just at dusk the parade's tail was brought up by a Soviet dirigible which had flown during the day from Leningrad to Moscow...
Mounted and pedestrian police formed a solid phalanx around tall Premier Lang and the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Philip Game, as they advanced to cut the ribbon that would open Sydney's "Dream of the Century." Royal Air Force planes were buzzing high above, prepared to dive under the arch at the historic moment. Massed below the bridge was a fleet of 150 motorboats. A salute of 21 guns had begun, a band had burst into "Advance, Australia Fair!" and six-foot Premier Lang was advancing with his shiny pair of scissors-when suddenly...
...extreme Left of the organized phalanx is held by the Industrial Workers of the World ("Wobblies") whose unclassified membership slugged and dynamited its way to notoriety before the War but is now practically defunct with a claimed strength of 68,000. A little closer to the centre the line is occupied by the Trade Union Unity League, commanded by William Zebulon Foster, No. 1 U. S. Communist. Liveliest unit in this organization is the National Miners Union which was active in the coal fields of the Pittsburgh area last spring (TIME, July 6). The T. U. U. L. claims...
...tensely quiet session saw frail Laborite Philip Snowden cow the entire phalanx of Conservative M. P.'s. The Chancellor demanded that his radical proposal for a levy of nearly % on the capital value of land (TIME, May 4) be included in the Finance Bill this year, although the levy will not be made for two years at least. By this technical maneuver Mr. Snowden sought to make his project a "money bill" and thus not subject to veto by the House of Lords, sure to veto it otherwise...
...which was prolonged with the coming of the House Plan. Annoyed by this inertia it was finally decided to apply the panacea and build the chapel. The confusion of the present opposition to the chapel is not so great that it can not still be organized into a strong phalanx and directed at the vital spot...