Word: fascistes
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Early Life: Quit Roman Catholic parochial school at 16, worked as apprentice typographer, grape picker, stevedore, professional bicycle racer, played football. Briefly a member (at 13) of Jacques Doriot's Fascist Parti Populaire Francais...
...power. The Communists, though reduced in numbers and caught in contradictions of policy, rode the guerrilla trails in confident expectation of gaining 20 or 30 seats. Also present were roughhousing bully squads organized by brash young Anti-Taxer Pierre Poujade to tear down candidates and break up opposition meetings, Fascist-style...
...speech, Mendès, like all aspiring politicians, had to undergo a process known as the contradictoire, in which a candidate is required to hear out and then answer needling questions from the floor. While he sat in enforced silence, a reedy-voiced neo-Fascist accused Mendès of changing his Jewish name, a grinning Communist, waving clippings from L'Humanité, blamed him for German rearmament ("He gave the spiked helmet back to the Germans"), and an M.R.P. spokesman cried that Mendès had stolen the credit from M.R.P.'s Georges Bidault for ending...
...Agustin had jailed for failing to contribute to his fund haled the mayor to court for illegal taxation. Don Agustin was forced to resign his office. He was free on bail during the five years it took the slow-moving Fascist courts to bring him to trial. When he was tried a year ago, the court said it was sorry, but the fact remained: Don Agustin had violated the law. He was sentenced to one month and a day in jail, fined 1,580 pesetas and ordered to pay back every cent (total 604,367 pesetas) he had extorted...
...pacifist '205, Kipling's name became a mockery. In the ideological '303, it was thought that a man who had spoken well of authority and soldiering must be a fascist. As he had ignored critics all his life, Kipling ignored this too. About the only notice he took of Hitler was to remove the Indian good-luck sign from new editions of his work -a swastika...