Word: spearhead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...action, to turn the mere potentialities of the Recovery Act . . . into actualities. . . . The cotton textile industry has thus taken its courage in its hands. It has blocked out a plan of operations on its sector of the industrial front and today, putting that plan into effect, advances as the spearhead of the attack. . . ." Such was the stirring announcement with which the Industry plunged into NRA 13 months...
Last week the spearhead was quivering, its nose buried in a labor dispute, but it had not reached there at a single flight. Long had the cotton textile industry desired better things. In 1926 it obtained one of those better things, a Cotton-Textile Institute. As secretary for its Institute it got a bright, handsome young son of one of Nashville's leading department store owners. His name was George Arthur Sloan and, as Secretary of the Copper & Brass Research Association, he had learned the art of running trade associations. He plunged into the job of finding new uses...
Throughout the week Rabbi Wise and his Conference put on a good show of representing the "forgotten Jew," the petty Jewish tradesman who fills his shop window with anti-Hitler slogans. In a cablegram to the Conference last week Spearhead Samuel Untermyer of the anti-Nazi boycott begged Rabbi Wise not to give the impression that the boycott is primarily Jewish. "Few influential Jews are supporting us," declared Boycotter Untermyer. "No Jewish banker is a member of any boycott committee or has openly dared to support or contribute to the movement because of fear of German reprisals or because...
Merry-Go-Round: The drive to oust Harry Woodring as Assistant Secretary of War is becoming more intense. Spearhead of the drive is the general staff and its chief, General Douglas A. MacArthur. General Staff officers have laid down almost an ultimatum that Harry Woodring goes out. General: Meaning . . . that plaintiff was guilty of disloyalty and mutinous conduct, one of the most serious offenses in the Articles...
Interpreters- Third side of the physical spearhead is the clouded, retreating face seen by the world of common men. Here are ranged the handful of interpreters who tell plain citizens what is going on up near the attacking point. Some are lay observers with scientific grounding like Bertrand Russell and J. W. N. Sullivan. Now and then physicists on one battlefront or another pause to deliver philosophical interpretations. Thus on the mathematical front Dr. Planck, now an enthusiastic Nazi, year ago published a book on the nature and limitations of physical science. On the experimental front pious Dr. Millikan...