Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Malley, who not only saw the Trouble at first hand but did their best to help it along, referred to it simply as "the scrap." But as Author O Malley well knows, and as his Army Without Banners well shows, those troublous scraps were quilted together into a guerrilla pattern that nearly drove the British crazy, finally blanketed Ireland in Revolution...
...grisly third-degree, beaten up, constantly threatened with death, he was finally clapped into Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin's strongest. Few months later, before his identity had been discovered, he and a few bold comrades escaped. A seasoned veteran now at 24, O Malley was sent back to his guerrilla battlefield, this time with 7,000 men in his command. He found the revolutionary movement driven literally underground, with headquarters in dugouts, but with a new spirit of hope: the lost cause was beginning to win. While he was planning bigger and better raids, peace came at last...
Adequate proof of the proverb that "One man's meat is another man's poison," if nothing else, has emerged from the guerrilla struggle between the Harvard Maintenance and the United States Post Office Departments which has been raging in the basement of University Hall to such an extent that Martial Law has been declared in the University News Office...
Last week the newly-allied political guerrilla chieftains trotted out their candidate for the last act of the Townsend show. Rising just before sundown in Cleveland's huge Municipal Stadium, freckle-faced, stubble-chinned William Lemke addressed himself not only to some 70,000 empty seats and 5,000 Townsendites, but to every malcontent in the land. For Townsendites, he plumped "100% for an old-age revolving pension." For Coughlinites he cursed the "money changers," called for $5,000,000,000 worth of greenbacks. And for any who might still cherish the memory of Huey Long, he promised...
...Guerrilla Union. Far to the Left in No Man's Land, early last week, appeared signs that guerrilla leaders were at last moving to unite their private armies, declare war on both old Parties. In Chicago, Rev. Gerald L. K. ("Share-the-Wealth") Smith announced on behalf of himself and his new ally, Dr. Francis E. ("The Plan") Townsend, that they had reached "a loose working agreement" with the inflationist leaders, Detroit's Father Charles E. Coughlin and North Dakota's Representative William Lemke. To his new Manhattan headquarters went Father Coughlin to prepare for a radioration...