Word: vanguarde
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...hero, Slave Trader Matthew Flood, is built like a souped-up Abraham Lincoln and is as tough, lascivious and predatory as Rhett Butler. Its heroine, Pallas Burmester, is an Abolitionist and a sort of vanguard feminist, but she is also a woman of spirit and of adequate sex appeal. The settings-Bristol, the African Gold Coast, Cuba, Spain, of the late 18th Century-exude that wasted "authenticity" of the Hollywood superproduction. Added attractions: informative data about the slave trade, some warm stuff about a Negro concubine, vignettes of convent and plantation life, a storm at sea, litigations over an estate...
...into Federated Press, which began as a labor news service, soon turned into an effective Communist ally. The Fund helped such Communist fronts as International Labor Defense, the Trade Union Educational League, the League for Peace and Democracy, and the Manhattan Soviet daily Novy Mir. It established Vanguard Press (almost $145,000), which brought out revolutionary classics and books in praise of Russia (Vanguard was later sold, became a reputable commercial firm). The Fund put money into non-Communist radical experiments as well: a labor college, a labor daily that lasted six weeks ($40,000) under the editorship of Norman...
Ready and waiting for them was Jorge González von Marées, who had changed the name of his Nacistas to the Popular Socialist Vanguard and who had attained the dignity of a seat in the Chamber of Deputies. Only a word from González was needed to set off another Rightist revolt...
...persuaded either to do something or to do nothing, the Axis plan was apparently to play a giant game of leapfrog, transporting men, small artillery, light tanks, food and maintenance supplies by plane from Greece to Iraq. In Iraq they would, for the time being, fight a kind of vanguard delaying action, keeping the British from getting firmly established in the area until they themselves could...
...HOUSE-Caroline Slade-Vanguard...