Word: spearhead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Second, the monetary policy of this Administration rescued us from chaos; held the fort through the most trying period of our recovery program; and is now the spearhead as we advance steadily toward our goal...
...Mexico's radical and anticlerical Six-Year Plan. He has called it roundly "a new deal and a square deal!" Moreover, to the joy of Mexican silver interests, President Roosevelt has raised the price of silver. He has also recognized the Soviet Union, considered by Mexicans the spearhead of all that is Godless...
Died. Field Marshal Alexander von Kluck, 88, spearhead of the German onslaught on Paris in 1914; of old age; in Berlin. On the German right wing, he marched with startling swiftness through Belgium and northern France. Almost in sight of Paris but separated from von Billow's army and unable to keep communications open, he was beaten at the Marne and subsequently blamed by some tacticians for the German retreat. Few months later he was wounded and retired...
...Venerable, profound Philosopher John Dewey began a discussion of Education and Social Reconstruction with a quotation from Amos 'n' Andy. Sociologist Henry Pratt Fairchild thwacked the New Deal - for its conservatism. Historian Charles Austin Beard urged a democratic distribution of property. Editor of The Social Frontier and spearhead of the whole movement for a New Order through Education is George Sylvester Counts, 44, Professor of Education at Teachers College. He is a slender man of middle height with pompadoured brown hair, a deep voice, a bristly reddish mustache. Teachers Collegians flock to his classes. He is a prolific...
...little, thus gaining respite in which to organize and unify China's factions in the vast territory which is left. With passionate invective, firing his points explosively in Chinese like cannon balls, Tsai accused Chiang of a series of machinations to destroy the 19th Route Army as the spearhead of Chinese resistance to Japan...