Word: martyres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well to remember that the worst possible thing for the two men in question is the all too familiar routing of petitions, and investigations, and martyr creation. Nothing could make it harder for Walsh and Sweezy, than to have this storm of protest over a perfectly routine matter, and the sooner they put a quietus on the whole affair and the sooner the University issues a much needed clarification of its true position, the better it will be for all concerned...
...Moscow, Director Eisenstein has spent the last two years and 2,000,000 Government rubles on a picture called Bezhin Meadow, about Pavlik Morozov, twelve-year-old Soviet Martyr who was killed by kulaks (landowning farmers) for informing the Government of chicaneries by his kulak father. Last week, one version of Bezhin Meadow already having proved unsatisfactory, the second version was previewed by the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party. Result of the preview was that the Committee banned the picture as "inartistic and politically bankrupt." Main sin of Director Eisenstein seemed to have been that he "confused...
...acting on undetermined authority, surrounded a house where Father José María Flores was illegally celebrating Mass. As his congregation of 58 women and four men began to leave, the police opened fire. Down dropped 14-year-old Leonor Sanchez and Orizaba's Catholics had a martyr...
...themselves politically irregular, frequently electing Democratic Governors at the same time that they vote Republican in national elections. Senator Norris, who has never had a political organization at home, has generally a more powerful individual appeal. His insurgency and his opponent's anger nearly always make him a martyr. It began when he was deprived of all patronage for his revolt against Cannon (he still has none). His martyrdom has gone on year by year, with vituperative newspaper attacks and such follies as the regulars committed in 1930 when they tried to do him dirt by putting...
Splashed on the front pages of Nazi newsorgans in Germany last week was not the story which the rest pf the world was devouring (see p. 14) but the Homeric tale of that martyr, Nazi Leader Wilhelm Gustloff, who is a likely candidate for canonization when the Paganists in Germany can spare time from their baiting of Jews and Christians to develop a ritual...