Word: firebrand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large extent from the white professional liberals and their pet slogan, "education," he tries, for instance, to get a court ruling on segregation in Pullmans instead of trying to "educate" millions of individual Pullman passengers. Today's Negro leader does not want to be known as a firebrand; the compliment he prizes most is to be called "a good tactician." One symptom of this change is the fact that Booker T. Washington, a superb tactician whom most Negro leaders in the '20s and '30s denounced as an "Uncle Tom," is being rediscovered by Negroes as a great...
Died. Asaf Ali, 64, India's first Ambassador to the U.S. (1947-48), Moslem husband of a firebrand Hindu socialist (Aruna Asaf Ali); of a heart attack; in Bern, Switzerland, where he served as Indian minister...
...insistence on passage of the two treaties was accepted in good part by perhaps the majority of Western Germans. Stirred by Russia's tightening control in East Germany, the Western Germans day by day become less reluctant to rearm. In the Bundestag, Socialist Leader Erich Ollenhauer, no firebrand as Kurt Schumacher had been before him, was determined in his opposition, but not vehement...
...Firebrand and Conservative...
Died. Charles Marie Photius Maurras 84, firebrand editor of the royalist, anti-Semitic L'Action Française newspaper philosophical writer (The Three Aspects of President Wilson, The Future of Intelligence) and venomous opponent of the French Republic ("the whore") and democracy ("the mother of anarchy"); in Tours, France. So violent were his pre-World War II attacks against his enemies-of-the-moment that he was excommunicated from the Catholic Church, served time in jail for "incitement to murder" and was deluged with libel suits. Convicted in 1945 of collaborating with the Nazis, he had served seven years...