Word: oswald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the war began, cocky British Führer Oswald Mosley was reported in London to have found a new pastime, cookery. His specialty: lobster mousse...
...once-familiar voice in Britain. Though Joyce was born in the U. S., of an Irish father and a Yorkshire mother, he was taken to England as a boy. He went to London University, was a star language student, tutored for some years, took up with Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists in 1933. He became Mosley's speechifying director of propaganda. In 1937, he was kicked out, formed Britain's National Socialist League. As a memento of one Fascist brawl in Great Britain, Joyce carries the scar of a razor slash from mouth...
...native of Bavaria; his name was Ferdinand Heinrich Gustav Hilgard, but he changed it when he quarreled with his father and fled to the U. S. A reporter, Civil War correspondent, railway promoter, financier, Villard married Gar rison's sister Fanny. He left The Nation to his son, Oswald Garrison Villard, when he died...
...Manchester (TIME, Feb. 5) Mr. Churchill was indeed interrupted, but only by three isolated and promptly shushed calls for British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley...
...industrial Manchester's Free Trade Hall, 2,500 citizens listened as the First Lord vaunted that Adolf Hitler had lost the first phase of the war by not launching crushing attacks. Suddenly from the audience came a single shout-for Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley. Police threw the heckler out. Unruffled, Winston Churchill went on. The time might come, he said, when Britain would take the initiative. "We want Mosley!" came a new shout. Police did their work again. Churchill continued. The shout was repeated...