Word: martyres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...development which has raised gooseflesh on the sensitive epidermis of these moguls is the news that the government will subpoena forty bank presidents so that they may shed some verbal illumination on their financial practices. An added horror was lent to the announcement, when the financiers beheld their fellow martyr, Mr. Harvey L. Carke, most unwillingly damning himself by his own testimony, and when they shudderingly recollected the amazing confessions dragged from Mr. Wiggin and Mr. Morgan on the same stand. While Mr. Clarke could not compare with Mr. Wiggin in the variety and scale of his operations he nevertheless...
Next day soldiers policed the streets as the Communists started their funeral procession, carrying Martyr Mella's ashes in two tin-boxes. Suddenly snipers, whom the Government later branded as Communists, began a random reckless fire from the rooftops which at first crackled over the heads of the Communists and soldiers. Instantly soldiers began to fire, some kneeling and shooting directly into the Communist ranks. Only a sudden burst of tropical rain cut short what might have been a massacre, but two hours later firing began again...
Happy as any martyr was Communist Minor when a policeman arrested...
...Lawyer Max Steuer. It was he who had persuaded the jury that Banker Mitchell's "dummy" stock sales had been perfectly legitimate, that the $666,666.67 which Mr. Mitchell had received from National City Co. was no taxable bonus but a loan, that his client was a financial martyr, not a tax slacker who had tried to defraud the Government of some $850,000. Well content, smart Lawyer Steuer was to be found at his office at No. 11 Broadway, working on more routine cases...
...interfere, cut the interest rate yourselves." Schlageter. Control of unions, employers, banks-that was enough work for a week, it was time to prepare for another festival. Nazi authorities announced plans last week for a gigantic mass meeting at Diisseldorf in honor of Albert Leo Schlageter. A Nazi martyr was Albert Leo Schlageter. Claimed as one of the original Brownshirts, he was shot by the French during the occupation of the Ruhr for damaging bridges and railways over which they were exporting German coal as part of the Reparations payment. On the field where he faced a firing squad...