Word: spearhead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Generally in The Netherlands last week the Crown Princess' choice came as a complete surprise almost completely popular. Only Dutch Socialist papers such as Het Volk grumbled that Benno is a German and Germany is now the spearhead of anti-Socialist forces. However, likeable Benno served most of his apprenticeship to the German Dye Trust in its Paris office, speaks French even better than he speaks Dutch, and would be able from experience to show buxom Juliana a good time in Paris swank spots...
Spanish workmen of the Red Militia, desperately battling to save Madrid, outnumbered two-to-one last week the advancing spearhead of White professional soldiers 67 miles from the Capital. Ensued a conflict savage in the extreme, with Madrid claiming that the Whites had been pushed back 15 miles, and Seville headquarters of the Whites saying they had defeated the Reds. But the week brought one decisive action in Spain's bloody stalemate...
...night on their once Free City will be German in fact, if not by a Göring proclamation. Shopkeepers hoped they have not been duped by Nazi assurances that Danzig is going to boom as General Göring turns it into a great German air base and "Spearhead against Russia...
Into this idealistic atmosphere plunged Candidate Borah, expected by "Stop Landon" men to be the spearhead of their attack. With great emphasis on his Principles, the Senator from Idaho declared that he was first & foremost interested in the platform, refused to join a cabal against any candidate. To him the identity of the nominee was and always had been a matter of secondary importance. "I think," boomed he, "we should have a clarion call in our platform so that the average man in the street may not find it hard to read and know what it means...
...Apparently this was done with the bribe-bought co-operation of one of the last Celestials to wear the ancient Chinese pigtail, famed Prince Te. His Highness is the blandest foe of Soviet Russian influence, in Inner and Outer Mongolia. In effect the seizure of Pailingmiao, jabbed the Japanese spearhead 200 miles nearer to an ultimate clash with the Red Army of Joseph Stalin for the mastery of Eastern Asia...