Word: martyrizing
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Meanwhile, at City College Morris Schappes had become almost a campus martyr. Small, red-mustachioed, 33, Schappes had taught literature and composition to some 3,500 undergraduates in his 13 years at the college. Five hundred students turned out to cheer him at a rally, heard him cry: "We are the winter soldiers, and cometh late or cometh early, spring will bring us victory." Schappes denied the board's charges, declared it did not dare accuse him of teaching Communism in class. He was busy turning out statements for the press at the College Teachers Union office near Union...
...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...