Word: vanguardism
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Parliament convened last week, but with out the pomp of untroubled times. There was no royal coach, no scarlet-clad outriders for vanguard, no cheering crowds along St. James's Park. George VI and Queen Elizabeth drove from Buckingham to the Houses of Parliament in an automobile, quickly and almost unnoticed. There were no royal robes. The King wore the blue of an admiral, the Queen wore a royal purple street ensemble. The peers were in morning coats or uniforms and peeresses were not even present...
FATHER AND SON-James T. Farrell-Vanguard...
Graziani, by week's end, had pushed the vanguard of his 260,000 desert troops 50 miles along the coast of northwestern Egypt to Sidi Barráni. There he stopped, or was stopped. Ahead of him, along a salt-scarred road-a three-hour run in a fast tank-lay Mersa Matruh, first major objective in Italy's drive to conquer Egypt, a prize the Fascist press at home could shout through the streets as noisily as the populace once roared at slaves in clanking chains. But Graziani waited...
...children, who had virtually overwhelmed the rest of the Samaria's 687 passengers during an anxious eleven-day trip, were the vanguard of 32,000 British children whom Mr. Field's committee hopes eventually to place in U. S. homes. Best hope of getting the others out still lay in the British merchant marine. Though the Hennings Bill (passed last week but not yet countersigned by Hitler) has granted permission to U. S. ships to go into combat zones to evacuate children, it carries the proviso that a grant of safe conduct must first be obtained from...
This year, in the Vanguard interceptor pursuit, Vultee produced one of the fastest planes in the sky. Since March, World War II has tripled Vultee's backlog of unfilled orders to an estimated $40,000,000 (all military, some foreign...