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...House of Commons this week the Labor Party made the Glasse indiscretion the spearhead of their drive for a motion of censure against the Prime Minister, demanding a British General Election...
...Cinca to cover their retreat. Wading chest deep through the icy waters, the 60,000 Rightists crossed at Fraga, which had just been reduced to shambles by 160 Rightist bombers. Pontoon bridges were then flung over the Cinca, the motorized units roared across, resumed their role as the steel spearhead...
...Barcelona, officials of Spain's Leftist Government confirmed last week that recent Rightist victories in the Teruel sector (TIME, Feb. 14) "completely eliminated the spearhead" which Leftist forces previously drove in north of Teruel. Rightist officials said their troops had recaptured an area twice as great as that taken from them by the Leftist offensive which took Teruel (TIME, Jan. 17, et ante), but the Rightists last week had not recaptured Teruel itself...
Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Government, who was the spearhead of the Faculty attack in 1937, believed that the bill would pass in both the House of Representatives and the Senate as it did last year before it was stamped with Governor Hurley's veto...
Only one choice, that of Kevorkian, was unanmous. The big tackle was praised as "the spearhead of the Crimson forward wall throughout the season...