Word: rearguard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rumored that, for the sake of his conscience and his skin, he was getting out. Prince Fumimaro Konoye, golf-playing descendant of a long line of courtiers, has from the beginning disliked his job. For 19 months he and other moderates in his Cabinet have conducted a gallant, ineffective rearguard action against army-dominated colleagues. Premier Prince Konoye quit, so did Finance Minister Ikeda...
...wait"; a time in which the social action which was once the Church's great concern had been stalled. To the Catholic view, the Church was, as always, the Church militant-though, to many of its rank & file, the Church seemed to be fighting, on some fronts, a rearguard action...
...Elliott could see, the pension wave had lesser crests, and in California spring tide seemed at hand. California the wonderland, California the rugged and golden, lies at that edge of the continent where the migrations that made the nation ended. There the last vanguard of pioneers halted and the rearguard of sick, halt, lame, blind, crooked and crazy have caught up. It is a home of saints and scoundrels, heroines and houris. There since Depression I has grown up a strange society in which men born in the great open spaces and hardshells with their feet two generations planted were...
...Rearguard Guards. Procurement for the peacetime armies and mobilization of industry to supply the war-time armies are the prime duties of the Assistant Secretary of War. While playing Secretary, Assistant Secretary Johnson has not neglected these duties. In fact, he has done a rapid, bang-up job. When he talks about the next war, Louis Johnson emphasizes: "The civilians will be fighting, too." Every U. S. citizen will be mobilized in some fashion. Heart of the War Department's plans for civilians is its Industrial Mobilization Plan, to throw U. S. industry into war-time gear with...
...three measures the one most insistently demanding correction and clarification is the relationship between Sociology and her somewhat arrogant sister social sciences. But all three, coupled with internal reorganization, must be consummate before the Sociology Department can stop fighting rearguard actions alone and unaided, and move up to the van of educational progress. Figures on Sociology *Concentration at Harvard...