Word: vanguarde
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...FIRST BILLION : The Stillmans and the National City Bank-John K. Winkler-Vanguard ($2.50). Once upon a time bankers were considered the pillars of Church & State. Even 25 years ago such a word as "bankster" would have been blasphemous. But not now. For these onetime gods of the U. S. scene twilight has come. If keepers of other people's money continue to lose caste at the present rate, "banker"' may some day be an insult. And some future Lytton Strachey will have a gay time humanizing the pre-1929 financiers to less than lifesize. Such a student...
...Avenue chattered a smoky-tailed vanguard of motorcycle police. Out stepped spectacled Major General Dennis E. Nolan, commander of the 2nd Corps Area and Marshal of the parade. Along came Administrator Whalen, who once was Police Commissioner. Behind them, on the parade's lone official float, rode two symbolic beauties, "Miss Liberty" and "Miss NRA," the Misses Elise & Doris Ford of Brooklyn, Howard Chandler Christie's models. When the head of the parade reached the Public Library at 42nd Street, Grover Whalen and General Nolan joined General Hugh Johnson, Governor Lehman of New York and prognathous, bag-jowled...
...marching" column stretched out for a mile and a half. It was kept in order with the help of radio networks, one relaying messages from Expedition Commander Major John A. Robenson in the vanguard to officers in the rear, another connecting the column with Fort Bliss at El Paso. When the caravan reached Terlingua the horses were unloaded and the cavalry proceeded under their own power 15 mi. to the Mexican border. A significant experiment in army transportation, the expedition indicated that U. S. borders could be protected by distant major posts, thus eliminating the cost of permanent border forts...
WOODROW WILSON -John K. Winkler-Vanguard ($3.50). Brief, enthusiastic biography by the man who wrote about Hearst...
...result of leaving it heterogeneous and disunified. It is to be hoped that this alumni fusion will facilitate important collective contributions to intellectual activity. Certainly thee is no other large body which, conceding the premises upon which American higher education is based, would be so well fitted as the vanguard for the ideas and the initiative which the problems of a complex society demand...