Word: firebrands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...immigrant in 1904. He knew one Benito Mussolini, the Socialist who had told him "Tresca, you are not radical enough." For the next 38 years this rotund journalist in the oversize black hat unceasingly championed the causes of the Left. In an earlier day he belonged to the same firebrand company as Emma Goldman and the I.W.W. His voice was raised in a long array of newspapers, of which the last was Il Martello (The Hammer). He campaigned in the Pennsylvania coal fields, in Manhattan's garment district. He scrapped with Communists, but above all with Fascists...
...Firebrand Siqueiros walked out of jail, was given a passport and money. In Chile he was again arrested, again released. Back in Mexico the police still officially wanted Exile Siqueiros. The Mexican Government was meanwhile paying him handsomely for his Chilian...
...gone to Chile to paint the murals, green-eyed David Alfaro Siqueiros, considered them his greatest work. A famed Mexican artist and Marxist firebrand, for the past 20 years, he has been making himself a double reputation...
Editor of Paris-Soir at 33, tiny (5 ft. 2 in.) Firebrand Lazareff increased his paper's circulation from 60,000 to 2,000,000, branched out into magazines (Match, Marie Claire...
...execution warrants for the Blood Purge of June 30, 1934 were signed in the clear, steady hand of Reinhard Heydrich. Sending two of his lieutenants to keep tabs on the Munich murders, Heydrich supervised the Berlin end of the massacre, found time to take personal care of Gregor Strasser, firebrand adherent of the Roehm rebels...