Word: martyred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cohen No Martyr...
Shorn of its gratuitously insulting irrelevant superfluities, the letter states in effect that I sought the role of a martyr. Mr. Francis has often read my contributions to the Harvard Crimson in which I have emphasized that I seek no early martyrdom and that the Socialist Party is not "idealistic" but very much a bread and butter movement of workers who seek better working and living conditions...
...have promised him a summons for next Thursday. He will doubtless get a nominal penalty, and the Transcript will come out with a benign editorial to the effect that Cohen is a bad boy but that time will teach him discretion. So Cohen will find himself not a martyr, but merely a "source of innocent merriment", which is not an agreeable position for a crusader...
...four, killing two. Paul Raditch, nephew of Stefan and father of seven, was one of those who died. Stefan Raditch crumpled with a bullet in his stomach. Fifty days later, in Zagreb, Croatian Capital, he died. That was last summer. To Croats, still, the name Raditch means Hero and Martyr. They gather in thousands to cry "Zhivoi Raditch! (Hail Raditch!)." Impatiently have they waited to be avenged...
Unhappy Croats had another reason to be bitter last week. Seven governing committee members of the Croatian Peasants Party, including Martyr Raditch's successor, Dr. Matchek, left an anti-Belgrade-dictatorship demonstration at Zagreb, were arrested, taken to Belgrade for incarceration...