Word: firebrands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps the best way of obtaining an efficient, non-grafting control is the union of military, naval, and commercial aviation under one head, a proposal which was made several years ago by General Billy Mitchell, probably the most tactless and the most capable firebrand that has recently worn the Army khaki, and a proposal which is now nearer to realization than ever before. Efficiently run, this would give us an organized, unified, and powerful airforce, and a comparatively safe and graft-free commercial service. Until the day comes, stick to the rails...
...dictator to another Josef Stalin sent last week to Josef Pilsudski an extraordinary personal gift. It comprised a bulky sheaf of time-worn documents Every one of them damned the present Dictator of Poland as a radical, conspirator, firebrand, socialist, fake-madman and terrorist. This present Dictator Stalin had carefully gathered from the files of the Imperial Russian Secret Police When he received the documents on his farm near Vilna last week Dictator Pilsudski growled gruff delight, shut himself up in his study to devour item after item...
...Berlioz, The Firebrand," Professor Hill, Music Building...
...committing both. But a lucky series of breaks gave him his self-respect again, gave him the strength to stand up against his vampire. When she saw her power over him was gone she went too. Sherrill, well-singed, told himself he would never take up with a firebrand again...
...July 4 issue of TIME your discussion of Plain Talk magazine recalls a real journalistic firebrand, Geoffrey Dell Eaton, who founded it, and died June...