Word: martyre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...write another will, her cohort Cotten deals with the evil contenders for the money--the housekeeper (Barbara Stanwyck), and a sinister side-whiskered butler. Between drinking quantities of liquor (fourteen glasses in all) and trying to break through Stanwyck's overbearing hostility, Cotten manages to appear a humanitarian martyr...
...late August, 1949, he was attracting close to 2,000 people to his talks. St. Benedict's was becoming a national symbol to groups of fanatic-Catholics who took Feeney as their martyr and repeated his line in their own communities. Letters poured into the Center supporting the clergyman. Some even offered suggestions for his attacks...
...Feeney has started something that has found popular support in many circles, both Catholic and non-Catholic. This is an organized hate movement, reminiscent of the American fascist movements before the second World War. It no longer needs Feeney--in fact, would probably rather use him as the martyr to the cause...
However, they would not phase any espionage ring that might be operating in Massachusetts. They would not even work against the Communist Party's public mouthpieces who would use the martyr aspect of any prosecution for all it was worth...
...duels, including a saber engagement in 1947 with Carlos Prio Socarras, now President of Cuba. When someone fired a bullet at Chibás while he was making an open-air speech back in 1947, he bared his chest and cried, "Go ahead and shoot! The Ortodoxos need a martyr...