Word: bulwarking
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...known is Alaska Juneau, of which Bear Bernard ("Sell 'em Ben") Smith is so fond that he named his horse for it. In the past eight weeks it has thrashed forward from $11 a share to $15. Homestake, one of North America's biggest mines and a bulwark of the Hearst fortune, has flared from $120 to $163. Jules Semon Bache's Dome Mines have gone from $11 to $13. Much speculation in McIntyre Porcupine a Canadian producer, has picked it from $16.50 to over $20. Last week Toronto's Financial Post warned: "If investors will...
Leaks from the Nazi camp indicated that Leader Hitler tried to persuade the President to accept him as Chancellor chiefly by arguing that the Fascist party is now Germany's "sole bulwark against proletarianism." This argument, not mere Hitler claptrap, had strong elements of fact. Earlier in the week Dr. Paul Lobe, long considered a most moderate Socialist, Speaker of the Reichstag, with one short interlude, for twelve years (1920-32), made a pivotal speech. Seconded by other Socialist leaders, he called on the Socialist Party (Germany's second largest) to unite with the Communist Party (third largest...
Obviously the sole parliamentary bulwark against so potent a pink & red front would be the Nazi brownshirts (largest party) supported by a coalition of the small, moderate centre parties and by Dr. Alfred Hugenberg's rampant Nationalists ?who in fact are Monarchists...
...draped a grey shawl of early morning mist. From his Chesapeake & Ohio special President Hoover crossed to a stadium near the station. There a sleepy-eyed crowd, many school children, heard him tell how Charleston's chemical industry had waxed fat and strong behind the protecting bulwark of the Republican tariff. A lusty cheer rolled out when the President recalled that he, too, had once worked with pick & shovel in a mine...
...fact that graduate students in the arts and sciences are presumably preparing for positions in education accounts in part for the relative poverty of the School in first-rate minds. For, in spite of education's noisy acclaim as the panacea of social ills and the bulwark of progress, the teaching profession still lags far behind others in earning public esteem and in drawing men of outstanding ability. Until the profession acquires new dignity and lustre, the Schools which train for it will remain under a distinct handicap...