Word: patriote
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first reading period is scheduled to last from January 4 to January 20 while there will be 23 days for the final reading period. Other holidays will be on Columbus Day, Thanksgiving, Washington's Birthday, Patriot's Day, and Memorial...
...accidents of the Show's alphabetical arrangement by artists' names brought side by side the works of Benito Nuno, patriot, and Benjamin S. Ovryn, revolutionary. Nuno's Our Leader presents President Roosevelt, glorified, benevolent, beaming at various U. S. phenomena climaxed by a copy of Motion Picture Magazine. For the Left, Ovryn gives the same central position in his study of The Imperial Way to Russia's Dictator Joseph Stalin, topped by a villainous crew of imperialists: Henry Ford, J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller Sr., Britain's Stanley Baldwin, France's Pierre Laval...
John Upley, Latvian blacksmith, tops the revolutionary pictures with one named Revolution in Bed, showing red, undressed small boys roughhousing in bed. A meticulous patriot, he also reproduces a plaque on a Massachusetts rock commemorating the visit in 1775 of John Hancock and Samuel Adams...
...especially among democratic nations which are supposed to work out their own destiny, are so ephemeral and hard to distinguish that historians years later are at odds as to exactly what started the conflagration. The mass of the electorate can judge of economic rivalries with little accuracy, and the patriot and potential profiteer look much alike. So far the Senate munitions investigations have made the best efforts to expose the men and forces working for hostilities, and these-have bogged down in political mud from time to time. Yet work along this line is an intelligent course for peace action...
...love with the hero; Mr. Moseley Sheppard, Ben's master; Pharaoh, the other traitor--all these characters remain fixed in the memory some time after one has finished reading the book. Gabriel, the hero, who had pondered on the exploits of Toussainat L'Ouverture, the Haitian patriot, is not so forceful as a better novelist would have made him, but he is strong enough to make some impression even on the minds of those who "read history not with their eyes but with their prejudices," to use the words of Wendell Phillips. The novel is full of the large...