Word: martyrize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years passed. McNamara imperceptibly became "J. B.," the oldest San Quentin prisoner. At times the Communist Party would begin a movement for his release, but "J. B." could not play the part of a martyr to the labor movement...
...right, that "a little band of evil men could gang up to defeat democracy." The chief isolationist, Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, merely chuckled. For his strategic purposes, this irritated attitude was a good sign: consistently through the debate Wheeler and his henchmen have striven to assume the martyr's crown, to be regarded as a tiny group of courageous idealists struggling against hopeless odds. The tactic was working well, because the Administration strategy was failing. Majority Leader Alben Barkley had advised patience and silence, to let the isolationists wear themselves out. This plan of masterly inactivity had flopped...
Oftenest reputed to be in line for World War II's George Creel, if one is ever appointed, is a soft-spoken ex-newspaperman named Lowell Mellett, elder brother of Don Mellett, "the newspapermen's martyr," who was killed in 1926 by gangsters on whom he waged war as editor of the Canton (Ohio) News. Top-flight Scripps-Howard editor and executive for 16 years, Mellett parted company with Roy Howard in 1937 over editorial policy in the Supreme Court fight. Called by President Roosevelt to head the National Emergency Council, super-press bureau of the New Deal...
Since wealthy onetime Indian National Congress President Subhas Chandra Bose was jailed last July, becoming the first big-time martyr of Mohandas Gandhi's new drive for Indian self-determination, he has been itching to get back into action. In November he thought up a perfectly legal device. Elected a member of the Indian Legislative Assembly, he requested release long enough for the formal swearing-in ceremony. But the British Raj flatly denied the appeal...
...Bombay an Indian National Congress member named Vinoba Bhave was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for making, or being about to make, a speech against the war. Vinoba Bhave, who was picked as the first martyr of Mohandas Gandhi's new civil-disobedience movement three months ago, had been released from jail just in time to go back again...