Word: fascistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...France had been governed by an honest group of men, this movement would not exist today ... I would like to shoot everyone who has not informed the country about the financial situation . . . We should follow Portugal's example and practice a vigilant type of nationalism . . . Call me a Fascist if you like-after all, they had some good ideas...
...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...
...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...