Word: patriotes
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...cotton futures $10 a bale for every cent a pound rise above 25?. (At the present price of 26? a pound, on the New York Exchange, this would increase margins 1½times.) Few knew whether this would hold down prices. But it raised the tempers of cotton patriots so high that they loudly threatened to liquidate OPA if it continued to tamper with the sacred right of cotton to rise as high as it pleased. Nevertheless, Stabilizer Bowles was stubbornly determined to check cotton prices. If increased margins did not work, ceilings would. No cotton patriot thought Bowles could...
Died. Feliks Nowowiejski, 68, first-rank conductor and patriot composer of Poland's national hymn, Rota,* who was stricken in 1942, while a Nazi captive, with complete, permanent paralysis; in Poznan...
Maurice Chevalier, longtime darling of Paris music halls, seven-year darling of Hollywood (1928-35), said he was coming to Broadway in February. He had just been okayed (for the third time) as a French patriot. Embraced by the underground in 1944, cleared as a collaborationist by the Government last September, he was now cleared by the National Committee of the Theatrical Purge...
...leaders. But 'democracy' and 'freedom,' as they are under stood here, would seem strange to Americans. . . . Freedom exists here only in so far as it conforms with the Communist Party line. The Party brooks no opposition. If you are with it you are a patriot. If you are too critical you run the risk of being denounced as a traitor...
Bawled Laval at the start: "I am a patriot and I will prove it!" Up jumped the Judge, the prosecutor, all 24 jurors to shout him down. Having robbed the Court of its dignity, Laval smirked. His lawyers walked out, protesting that they had had no time to prepare. Laval pleaded humbly for a delay. It was refused; he slammed his briefcase down on a table...