Word: fascists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson, son of the poet Frederick Locker, was host to Albert Einstein eight months ago he was so convinced that Nazi agents would attempt to murder the benign German scientist that he mounted a guard of gamekeepers over him. Lately the blatant manifestations of black-shirted British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley have filled Commander Locker-Lampson with wild alarm. He rose in the House of Commons last week to introduce a bill that would not only deprive Sir Oswald of his uniform, but would strip the shirt from his distinguished mother, the very dignified Katharine Maud. Lady Mosley...
...pleasant note is added by the fact that Yugoslavia is said to be massing troops on the border to prevent the ingress of the Bulgarian radicals, most of whom are said of he anti-Yugoslav. By this time, the moves in a fascist coup d'etat have become so routined that the Yugoslav variant is more than welcome...
...broad and militant a movement inevitably precipitated opposition from other students. In some places Fascist Clubs were organized. This was true of the University of Colorado with its American Brown Shirts, and Columbia, where the Fascists brought in Daniell of Stock Exchange-stink bomb fame. At Peoples Junior College in Los Angeles a song sheet appeared on which were printed the college song, the Star Spangled Banner and a purple swastika. Both at Johns Hopkins and Amherst, where there were strikes, R.O.T.C. men threw firecrackers and rotten vegetables into the ranks of the demonstrators. At the former university, the R.O.T.C...
...strike meeting, it went to the opposite ledge flanking Widener and staged a mock meeting. In between was massed the throng of 2,000. On one side heads inclined faithfully in the direction of the pacifists. On the other side several hundred hands were raised in a fascist salute. Today this is only fascist tomfoolery. Tomorrow it will be fascism in earnest...
...spectators were impressed with the courage and sincerity of the strikers, and were revolted by the placards and antics of the war proponents. The last speaker for the strikers was warmly applauded when he pointed out that the other side was using the fascist tactics that had triumphed in Germany, but that the strikers were here to see that those tactics did not win in America, and that the strike was a dress rehearsal for what students would do should war come...