Word: firebrand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just when it looked as if no common ground could be found, Anglo-Iranian agreed to send representatives to Teheran for "full and frank discussions." Firebrand Makki cooled off a few degrees, called Anglo-Iranian's gesture "satisfactory." The government was reported ready to postpone the actual take-over of Anglo-Iranian, pending the talks...
...before Accra's town hall as the returns came in. Thirty-one of the 38 elective seats went to the Convention People's Party, an anti-imperialist group which preaches self-government. The loudest shout arose over the victory of the C.P.P. leader Kwame Nkrumah, 41, a firebrand orator who had attended Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. (A.B. 1939; Bachelor of Sacred Theology, 1942; M.A. 1942, University of Pennsylvania.) Nkrumah was not among the crowd; a year ago he had been clapped into Cell No. 9 in Accra prison (two-year term) for sedition and inciting workers to strike...
Died. Harold Joseph Laski, 56, firebrand Socialist, member (1936-49) of the British Labor Party executive committee, prolific writer (25 books), lecturer and professor in economics; of pneumonia; in London (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...following two days the party's left wing was-comparatively speaking-as sweet as pie. Paul Robeson busied himself with nothing more provocative than singing 01' Man River. Manhattan's leftist firebrand, Congressman Vito Marcantonio, emitted a few wild yips, but concentrated on a routine target-Harry Truman, whom he described as a "little alderman in a big house...