Word: patriotes
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...were able to convey their money to Europe and the speculators in gold exchange since March who have been buying Swiss francs and bonds as the dollar has been going down from par to 66 cents, they will make enormous profits, too. The speculative element always does. The patriot who turned in his gold last March will not. That's the usual history of tinkering with the currency and the unit of value
Hofer is a great name in the Tyrol. Bearded, barrel-chested Tyrolean Patriot Andreas Hofer, most faithful friend of the House of Habsburg, captured Innsbruck twice from French and Bavarian troops during the Napoleonic wars, was captured by Italian troops and executed at Mantua in 1810 under Napoleon's orders. His tomb is a shrine for Austrian patriotism. From the Tyrol too comes Franz Hofer, an Austrian Nazi. No friend of the Habsburgs, eager to see his country absorbed by Ger- many, Nazi Hofer unwittingly added 8,000 men to the little Austrian Army, and brought the active support...
William Randolph Hearst, in whose fertile mind the stern duties of a patriot and the hot desires of a journalist are constantly interbreeding, raised his head alertly at Japan's announcement, last spring, that though she had withdrawn from the League of Nations, she had no idea of relinquishing her League-given mandate over the Marianne, Caroline, Palau, Yap and Marshall Islands in the Pacific (TIME, April 3). The Yellow Peril has for 30 years been a great circulation-getter for the Hearstpapers, which the Hearst-whooped Spanish War put on the map. Here came the Yellow Peril...
...them this time, a swelling mob burst into the Palace, smashing, ransacking, pillaging "I've got Machado's sheets!" screamed a negress. Other mobsters tore the mosquito netting from the President's bed. Smarter thieves stole silverware and fine porcelain. The Presidential water filter attracted one patriot who wheeled it drunkenly away. Others threw avocados and oranges at tapestries and paintings. The sidewalks outside were littered ankle-deep with debris hurled from the windows...
...delegates to four national conventions, as the publisher of a great newspaper and as a city, community and State builder, Governor Haskell's name towers like a giant rock rises in gigantic majesty which carries a sense of security in matters clear to the heart of every patriot...