Word: martyres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took several weeks to decide. Meanwhile, the village council levied a prohibitory license fee on persons renting their property as trailer camps. Hildred Gumarsol, who at first talked of going to the State Supreme Court if necessary, became so pessimistic that he packed up his trailer, left town, first martyr of the brave new trailer world. Last week his pessimism was justified. Justice Green held trial with Gumarsol absent. His decision: that Gumarsol had violated the law and that "trailer shantytowns" would no longer be allowed in Orchard Lake. Fining Defendant Gumarsol only $1 plus $3.10 costs, Justice Green declared...
Matrons & Martyr. With this illuminating display of Red fire being touched off by the nation's political leaders, it was not surprising that lay patriots throughout the land should take renewed interest in Communism last week...
...Roosevelt and Indiana's Governor Paul V. McNutt protesting violation of "the most elementary democratic principles," swiftly entrained for Terre Haute. Chief Yates did not disappoint him, taking him and four companions in for "vagrancy" as soon as they stepped off the train. Enshrined in the county jail, Martyr Browder declaimed: "Our arrests today mark the complete suppression of all civil rights, aggravated by a political campaign. This is one of the many signs of Hitlerism in America...
Since Alf Landon himself plumped for minimum-wages-for-women in his convention telegram, it seemed improbable that Joe Tipaldo would be employed in the Republican campaign. Already enlisted as a GOP speaker, however, was a more famed New Deal martyr, Fred C. Perkins of York, Pa. Because he could not pay workers in his battery plant NRA code wages, the big, hairy-fisted onetime Cornell footballer went to jail for 18 days, was fined $1,500, became the nation's prime symbol of the "little man" oppressed by NRA (TIME, Dec. 17, 1934 et seq.). Since then...
Sherston's Progress begins with his treatment in a mental hospital, covers his readmittance to active service when his desire to make a martyr of himself ebbed, his service in Ireland, Palestine, his return to his command in France. A simple, moving book, it has little in common with most War literature in its dry ironic tone, its study of Sassoon's effort to free his mind of doubt and concentrate on the task of making himself a good officer for his men. Written with a matter-of-fact detachment, it occasionally rises to rhetorical heights, as when...