Word: vanguardism
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...minor shocks that were recorded on the Harvard seismograph at Harvard, Mass. over the weekend comprise but the vanguard of many more that are to come during the next two years in this vicinity, according to Harvard geologists. And these quakes in the future will be nothing to trifle with because it is claimed that they will be severe enough to topple chimneys and send people scurrying to cover...
MURDER FOR BREAKFAST-Peter Hunt -Vanguard ($2). Miller happens to be Chief of Police in a small Connecticut town but speedily gets out of his depth when murder is dinned into his ears. In the baffling hospital-residence of a taciturn, suspicious doctor his common sense is his only piece of equipment. But he uses it effectively even when he is on the point of being the third victim...
...strike throughout Austria. Unfortunately for the Socialists they had no means of spreading their call, since their newspaper had been suppressed. Without means of quick communication, without leadership, the Socialists had little chance, but they tried to make up in fierceness what they lacked in organization. They met the vanguard of marching police with a shower of hand grenades...
...YOUNG MANHOOD OF STUDS LONIGAN-James T. Farrell-Vanguard ($2.50). Author Farrell is already a little out of date. Though brutally realistic novels with tough slum heroes will doubtless continue to be written, their day is waning with the reading public. Of their departing kind The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan is a worthy example. The Lonigans were decent Irish Catholics, dwellers in a poor Chicago neighborhood. But they thought of themselves as citizens of no mean city. Young Studs took to his tough environment like an alley-cat to a garbage can-fought, smoked, played football in vacant lots...
...millions of proletarians outside the Soviet Union," cried Premier Molotov, "we declare that we connect our fight for the victory of Socialism inextricably with the revolutionary struggle of the workers of the world against Capitalism! Our Party [i.e. the Russian Communist Party] is growing and strengthening itself as the vanguard of the Communist International [i.e. the World Communist Party of which the U. S. Workers' Party is a unit...