Word: martyrize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...India, reiterated his Government's support of eventual Indian self-government, but warned India that the Government "will not flinch from their duty" to combat civil disobedience. There was a counter-threat that, if the British jailed all Congress leaders, the aged and frail Gandhi might die a martyr's death. Sir Stafford hinted that Gandhi's actions were treasonable...
...political appointments. Yet Congressmen are infuriated at hints that they want to get their hands on the fat jobs. Stormed Jed Johnson: "These patronage stories sound very much like Henderson propaganda for the purpose of bailing him out with the public and making him appear as a martyr. The present Price Administrator apparently enjoys his role as he poses as a bully and a bluffer, a self-inflated bureaucrat who evidently envisions himself as a dictator...
...good lick in last week when he told his press conference that he was worrying "about how to keep the cost of living stabilized and not how to keep Leon and his faithful associated 'bureaucrats' in their jobs." Whether he would really carry out his threat to martyr himself to save his ceilings was still a moot question. If Congress makes his resignation the price of a subsidy bill, he may have to follow through. On the other hand, as he cagily mentioned last week, "A lot of personalities are being chewed up around here, but the trouble...
Last week, they unanimously voted that 2D was an "intolerable impediment to free thought and expression." They even agreed that the 16-month-old ban on the Daily Worker should be lifted. Their position : Why continue suppression of a fanatic sheet at the cost of creating a Communist martyr and jeopardizing faith in British democracy...
...When Maryknoll's first martyr was kidnapped by bandits from his mission in Manchukuo and strangled, New York's Archbishop Francis J. Spellman wrote: "In many a missionary heart there throbs a holy envy of Father Gerard Donovan...