Word: firebrands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gold watches went to a Mr. W. J. Rooney of the highly respectable American Federation of Labor. And Ben Tillett's speech was as conservative as a bowler hat. With an ideology that would have done credit to a Director of the Bank of England, erstwhile firebrand Tillett pleaded for protective tariffs, increased inter-Empire trade. Said...
President Coolidge, Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, Democratic firebrand, Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, Republican man-of-all-words, spoke in the same room in Washington, D. C., one night last week. Some 150 newsmen heard them. Yet not a word of what they said appeared in the public prints. It was the annual winter dinner of the Gridiron Club; at such a function the club beards itself with the phrase, "reporters are never present...
...they could agree on religious tolerance and Prohibition. "I do wish they'd give us a rest in the discussions about Mrs. Willebrandt," said Mr. Burton. Said Mr. Baker: "When Mrs. Firebrand from Washington gets into a ministers' meeting and flails the energies of the pastors to go into the pulpits . . . I don't wonder that Congressman Burton and others pray to be delivered from...
Observers marked as significant that famed A. J. "Emperor" Cook, firebrand Secretary of the Miners' Federation, and perhaps one of the chief provokers of the British General Strike (TIME, May 17, 1926), is now so chastened by the failure of his 100% Red projects that last week he assisted President Smith with the ejections...
...Occidentals are aware of Mustafa Nahass Pasha, a statesman who greatly resembles in appearance plump, black-mustachioed King Fuad I of Egypt. Politically the King and Pasha are poles apart?the Sovereign a British puppet, the statesman a firebrand Egyptian Nationalist. Therefore it is significant that, last week, King Fuad gave the Prime Ministry of Egypt to Mustafa Nahass Pasha...