Word: firebrands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...payable in $1 warrants, which would be annually "self liquidating" because whoever has one in his possession any Thursday in the year must affix a special 2? stamp to it. Treasurer of the Petition Campaign Committee sponsoring the plan is freckled Len R. Reynolds, onetime taxi driver turned firebrand. Last week, Treasurer Reynolds' receipts were estimated...
...northwest Indian territory lying against the border of Afghanistan. Its fierce tribes have never submitted to British rule. There last week, as they have been doing for two years, grousing British Army officers and sweating troops scrambled over unfriendly mountains on the trail of an elusive, red-bearded, turbaned firebrand, Mirza Ali Khan, the Fakir...
Every able-bodied man in Leftist Spain was promised by Premier Negrin death before a firing squad unless within 72 hours he should volunteer for the People's Army. The new Minister of Justice is picturesque Ramón González Peña, an Asturian firebrand who led squads of dynamite-throwing miners against the Rightists in the early days...
...winning in a Republican primary, because most of New York City's newspapers, including Scripps-Howard's World-Telegram and Joseph Medill Patterson's News are his firm supporters, the primary results were hailed as a great LaGuardia victory. Such they were, for stubby little firebrand LaGuardia had bothered to make only one campaign speech...
...Secretary of State for India (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935 et ante), that no matter how hard Indians at first kicked against its traces they would end by settling down, pulling in harness. Last week the Congress Party executive committee, chairmanned by Party President Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, a rabid firebrand by comparison with mild St. Gandhi, grudgingly voted to end the boycott begun last spring...