Word: mick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inhabitants (predominantly of Polish origin) fight their way through its name (which commemorates the first local American military commander) by pronouncing it Hamtram-mick...
...they were in, Mr. James gave them arm bands, had them buy red shirts, and revealed to them the deeper aim of the organization: founding a totalitarian, one-party state in which Catholics would have no part. Pamphlets were publicly distributed, for example, in which James railed against "this Mick pestilence" and said, "Rome, the Italian International, must pack up its baggage and go." But privately, James went even farther; at a recent meeting he told Lyford that when his Yankee totalitarianism is established, "there won't be any Catholics". In his platform, James left an absurdly obvious loophole: "Freedom...