Word: vanguardism
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HELL BEYOND THE SEAS - Aage Krarup-Nielsen - Vanguard ($2.75). Ghosted account of life in the penal colony of French Guiana, illustrated by grisly photographs...
...GREEN CORN REBELLION?William Cunningham?Vanguard ($2). Grim and unusual novel based on a tragically futile uprising of Oklahoma farmers in 1917. written in a manner reminiscent of the work of Erskine Caldwell...
...NAVY READY? ? F. Russell Bichowsky?Vanguard ($3). Curious critical study of U. S. Naval equipment and personnel, largely made up of quotations from naval officials...
That was how some U. S. rabbis felt in 1885, before political Zionism was more than a dream in Jewish hearts. The rabbis were Reformed Jews, in the vanguard of the movement in the U. S. They met in Pittsburgh, drew up a "Platform" as a guide for Reformed Judaism, put their views on Zionism in paragraph No. 5. Further, their Platform rejected old Jewish ideas of bodily resurrection, of Gehenna and Eden. Mosaic and rabbinical laws of diet, priestly purity and dress the Reformed rabbis found incompatible with modern life. They staked their faith on "the indwelling...
Last week as the Shriners began to assemble once again in Washington matters were different. Secretary Early turned down a request to have Imperial Potentate Dana S. Williams, of Lewiston, Me., ride up to the White House on a camel to be received by the President. Only the vanguard of potentates caught Shriner Franklin D. Roosevelt (Cypress Temple, Albany, N. Y.) at his desk, induced him to put on an honorary fez of Washington's Almas Temple. That night in a darkened limousine the President sped past the Pavilion of Omar erected on the sidewalk in front...