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...developed his comedy style while playing The Duke in Edwin Justus Mayer's The Firebrand. The idea occurred to him during a long pause in a speakeasy conversation with the playwright. Morgan shattered it with the exclamation: "That silly -" "Who?" asked Mayer...
...Black Shirt. Successively a Conservative, Laborite and Socialist, Sir Oswald emerged in 1932 as the firebrand founder of the blackshirted British Union of Fascists. He broadcast his admiration for his friends Hitler and Mussolini, tried to put his country in the Axis orbit. His hoodlums attacked labor meetings, were attacked in turn. Wherever Sir Oswald went, a kind of hate rose that was strange to Britain...
Algiers Today. The political scene in Algiers now has an almost unbroken Gaullist façade, by virtue of purge and new personnel. In the strongly Gaullist Consultative Assembly, which convened in Algiers last fortnight, only a four-man Communist bloc including firebrand André Marty may be a source of dissent...
...Independents won eight seats, a gain of three. Most notable was the victory of James Matthew Dillon, firebrand from County Monaghan and ex-Fine Gael deputy leader. Among 354 candidates he was the only one who stood for cooperation with the United Nations. Electorated he: "If anyone here wants Hitler to win I don't want his vote...
...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...