Word: spearhead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back up Harry Hopkins, spearhead of a big new Administration push to stimulate Business (see p. 451), Franklin Roosevelt caused identic letters to be released at week's end to "My Dear John" Lewis and "Dear Bill" Green, asking them to appoint committees to achieve "peace with honor" between C. I. 0. and A. F. of L. "within the early months of the new year." Bill named a committee forthwith, but John at week's end was still thinking it over...
...truth in his recent "Manifesto by a Physicist," and the omission has had repercussions which already have increased the gravity of the initial offense. Scientists from all over the country have been endorsing Bridgman's stand until now it seems likely that this individual protest may well become the spearhead of a concerted anti-fascist attack on the part of the nation's scientific leaders. Such action would not only fail to achieve its avowed end, but would in reality have results quite opposite to those desired by the earnest physics professor...
...spearhead of the attack against the oath of allegiance is from Harvard because of their great advocacy of Academic freedom," asserted ex-Representative Thomas Dorgan of Dorchester, fiery sponsor of the original law. "But that does not mean freedom to do anything they please...
Yesterday's practice was one of the most impressive so far this season, and the passing attack which will undoubtedly be the spearhead of tomorrow's offense against the Cadets, was functioning in high gear...
...yielding stubbornly-held ground on the south side of Generalissimo Franco's salient-to-the-sea, last week hurled a whacking good offensive across the Ebro into the north flank of that salient. Shock troops for the advance were chiefly five columns of foreign Leftists, forming the spearhead of Barcelona's drive, under command of up-&-coming General Vicente Rojo. Soon wounded in the back by a bomb fragment was James Lardner, son of late Funnywriter Ring. In Manhattan, portly Leftpundit Heywood Broun announced that Ring Lardner was the only genius he ever met, rejoiced that the wounding...