Word: blackshirt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took notice when it appeared that Oklahoma City schools were odd not only at the top but also at the bottom. Haled before their high school principal for persistent hooky-playing, Milton Walser, 19, and Manford Ishmael, 18, airily explained that they had been busy leading a blackshirt movement to establish a new political and economic system in the U. S. by "bloodless revolution...
...pounds, francs to be secured by thus "shaking down the whole Jewish race" (as some Nazis term it) are wanted to pay for such vital imports as Germany cannot get by barter deals. The Schwarze Korps, influential Nazi newsorgan of Adolf Hitler's personal Elite Guard and the Blackshirt Storm Troops, has openly hinted at the burgeoning of this gangster-blackmail scheme for several years...
Under Emperor Haile Selassie the populace of Ethiopia were armed almost to a man. The Italians have disarmed almost every native in Addis Ababa. Therefore when blackshirt squads of Fascist militia proceeded after the bombing to retaliate by shooting up the town, its disarmed, comparatively helpless citizens, accustomed always to giving as good as they got, became bitterly incensed at the white men's behaving in a manner so "unfair"- even if the Fascists were striking back because their Viceroy had 38 slugs...
After much sweating and shouting, the procession was reformed. First came a patrol of blackshirt motorcyclists, young and exuberant, followed by ten baby tanks, each one hastily named after some battle of the past seven months. Marshal Badoglio entered on horseback. Then came the cause of all the backstage commotion-a composite regiment containing detachments of as many of all the different Italian units now in Africa as possible. It was a fine show and a great pity that nobody was around to see it. Down the old Imperial Highway past the closely barricaded British legation the procession passed...
...road builders caught in a raid last February. "This is how Ethiopia treats her prison ers," thundered Benito Mussolini. "What reliance can we place in her guarantees?" Embarrassed President Huber had not even a chance to take up the charge that was outraging Britain last week. No sooner had blackshirt troops under ebullient Fascist Achille Starace touched Lake Tana, vital to Egypt's welfare, than the British Press and Parliament burst into shocked cries over Italy's use of poison gas. Up in the House of Lords stood bald, stoop-shouldered Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, ardent humanitarian...