Word: firebrands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left the Valley for good. He explained that he was looking over his interests in Dual Parking Meter Co., would soon leave for New Mexico to write a book on Teapot Dome. At reports that he would revive the Oklahoma News (which Scripps-Howard let die last month), ex-Firebrand Carl Magee only shook his head...
Valdemaras, known as the "Firebrand of the Baltic," was Lithuania's Premier and dictator from 1926 to 1929, when he was ousted by Smetona. In 1934 he was sentenced to twelve years' hard labor for an unsuccessful coup d'état, was later allowed to go to France where he has been living as an exile. Known as a Germanophile and Fascist, hardheaded, stiff-necked Augustine Valdemaras is also bitterly anti-Polish. Back in the late twenties he campaigned so vigorously for the return of Vilna* to Lithuania that Poland's late gruff old Marshal Pilsudski...
...baiting Dictator Metaxas, unable to lay his hands on the rebels, last week did the next best thing. He court-martialed the 42 leaders in absentia. Sentences: death for four, including former Minister of National Economy Aristomenis Mitsotakis, nephew of Greece's late Republican firebrand Eleutherios Venizelos; life imprisonment for three; one to 25 years' imprisonment for 35 others. As a special inducement the condemned men were informed that if they gave themselves up in a month they would have the right to appeal their sentences...
Ernst Kundt, youthful firebrand and spokesman in Prague of Sudeten Nazi Fuhrer Konrad Henlein, did his best last week to provoke a complete break with Czechoslovak Premier Dr. Milan Hodza. "I put on record," announced Spokesman Kundt, "that the Government's proposals and ours are irreconcilable. They are based on absolutely contradictory ideas...
Besides outlining a new area of friction between Italy and the Church, the Pope made reference to an old one. Catholic Action-organized activity of Catholic laymen under the guidance of their bishops-was the cause of frequent rows between Church and State in 1931. Lately Roberto Farinacci, Fascist firebrand, urged that members of Catholic Action groups be excluded from the Fascist Party. Exclaimed the Pope last week: "The Pope therefore says 'Beware!' I advise you not to strike at the Catholic Action associations. I advise and beseech you not to do so, for your own good, because...