Word: martyring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toyohiko Kagawa, Japan's No. 1 Japanese Christian, has shown no itch to become a martyr by protesting his Govern ment's drive against Christianity in Japan (TIME, Sept. 9), but nonetheless news last week leaked from Japan: last month Japanese police pounced on Christian Kagawa, jailed him in the best Martin Niemöller style...
When, last December, rotund, boyish Publisher George Fort Milton, 45, had to sell his once prosperous Chattanooga News to Grocer Roy McDonald, publisher of the Chattanooga Free Press, he made himself a martyr to New Dealers. Because Milton had fought Tennessee Electric Power Co. with all his might, and T. E. P. (subsidiary of Wendell Willkie's Commonwealth & Southern) had fought back, leftist journals like The Nation and The New Republic printed tearful articles implying that T. E. P. was largely responsible for driving Milton's News to the wall...
Then Publisher Milton founded the Chattanooga Tribune, backed by such New Deal bigwigs as Senator George Norris, father of TVA, and Francis Biddle, Solicitor General of the U. S., was launched with Franklin Roosevelt's blessing on page 1. But to New Dealers, George Fort Milton remained a martyr. Last fortnight, in a special Willkie supplement, The New Republic rehashed its old charge that T. E. P. killed the News, named Candidate Willkie as the martyrer. (The New Republic sold its first printing of 38,000 copies in 24 hours, ordered 35,000 more next day, then another...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's approach to the Edison legend is somewhat different. Installment No. 1, Young Tom Edison, showed its protagonist (Mickey Rooney) leading the life of an early Christian martyr in Port Huron, Mich. Sufficient time having elapsed since young Mickey Rooney steamed away to glory, leaving behind young Edison's harrowing boyhood, the public mind passes painlessly to Installment No. 2, solid, literal and prosaic, with big budget written over every sequence. It also has sterling, matter-of-fact Spencer Tracy making a brave, respectful effort at verisimilitude by looking a little wild at moments...
...Martyr's Marriage...