Word: martyres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edward L. Barnes '38, who scorned a coat, conducted the group from a watery perch on the steps. He relinquished his post to George W. Phillips '39 for the second half of the program, but Phillips was done out of being a martyr to his music; the rain had stopped...
...cessation of the Grove Bromo Quinine broadcast, on which he appeared, did.* Counter-rumors reported that the President's secretariat, far from "persecuting" Commentator Carter, had used its influence to keep Carter's radio chain and sponsor from bearing down on him lest Carter become a martyr. Fact is, last week Commentator Carter perceptibly softened his tone toward the Administration...
...Major Emil Fey did not recently commit suicide, but was called upon by Storm Troops who threatened to take his life unless he signed a confession that it was he who killed the late Chancellor Dollfuss, not the Nazi Planetta who is presently to be canonized as a "Nazi Martyr.'' The confessed Assassin Fey, according to these rumors, was then murdered by the Storm Troopers, and they announced his suicide. The conservative New York Herald Tribune was among papers which last week printed these unconfirmed rumors...
...have made Mooney, to a majority of the U. S. (as revealed by a Gallup Poll last January), seem the victim of an outrageous miscarriage of justice. In San Quentin jail. Convict Mooney has come to see himself clearly in the role of the nation's No. 1 martyr. In his 21-year fight to prove his innocence, Tom Mooney has thrice emerged from San Quentin to tell his story of the bombing to California courts in San Francisco. Last week, he made his fourth and longest excursion, this time to tell the same story to the California State...
...prepared. On the first two days 42 witnesses were called, and reputedly in Berlin there are almost an indefinite number of pious Germans, wealthy folk or members of the fighting services, ready to testify that Martin Niemoller is no traitor but a hero of the Fatherland and a martyr of the Church. If he wins acquittal it will be by the 'same indomitable, single-handed fighting methods that caused the German Supreme Court to acquit the famed Bulgarian Communist Georgi Dimitroff of complicity in the Reichstag fire (TIME, March 6, 1933, et seq.), send him to Moscow where...