Word: martyres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...president, 72-year-old Dr. Sokolow, is conservative, suave, quiet. Eminent among Jewish linguists and scholars, he has all his life been a journalist. Emotionally he spoke at the opening meeting, not in the statesman's but in the Hebraist's manner: "We are the oldest martyr people in the world! What pen can describe the wrongs and cruelties we have borne in the course of thousands of years? What good the nations have done us by such action as the Balfour Declaration is not kindness. Shall we now be driven into mistrust of mankind?" Fervently he quoted...
...motives, innumerable "angles," sprawled like tentacles through the redolent demimonde of Los Angeles politics. The memory of Chicago's Racketeer-Reporter Jake Lingle was still too fresh to allow a repetition in Journalist Spencer's case of the public error of canonizing him too soon as a martyr, a public crusader like Canton, Ohio's revered Editor Don R. Mellett...
Clergymen have been hailing Lutheran Pastor Emil Swenson of Minneapolis who accepted a court sentence rather than reveal secrets confided to him by a parish- ioner (TIME, March 16). The Press, which also hailed Pastor Swenson, last week hailed even more loudly a "martyr" of its own: youthful, dapper Edmond M. Barr, dramatic critic and ace newshawk of the Dallas Dispatch. Reporter Barr went to jail rather than break journalism's proud rule: Never expose your pipelines. Reporter Barr wrote for his paper of how two Communist organizers, C. J. Coder and Lewis Hurst, were taken from the city...
...cautiously climbed the Massachusetts "escalator." Two dozen months of spotlight put completely in the shadow Herbert Hoover's world-significant career, and robbed him of whatever sentiment had been attached to his name. Losing faith in the Press, he has come to think of himself as a martyr in a hair shirt, misunderstood and misinterpreted by the People...
...knife. Economical Poet Alexander Pope kept copies of his love letters. Baudelaire did Pope one better: sent exact duplicates to two women at once. Pierre Loving tries to explain his hero's complex character thus: "Artifice and stoicism, these were the keys to the unassailable life of the Chesterfieldian martyr and saint...