Word: patrioteer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wyck recalls, a patriot by the name of George W. Hinman "who would have led T. R. up San Juan hill" started a student drilling program in back of the aging Hemenway. But it took the first World War to require the use of Soldiers Field for the trainees. This move led to the inclusion of equitation in the intramural sports curriculum...
...life, as in death, Tai Li had been a partner of secrecy and violence. He was a legend-to his enemies, an Oriental Himmler, Plehve and Torquemada combined; to his friends, a ruthless but righteous patriot. Even Tai Li's age was unknown; he was "about" 50. His flat brown nose, wide-set black eyes and triangular ebony brows had appeared in few published photos. His birthplace was Chekiang, Chiang Kai-shek's native province. He studied at Whampoa Military Academy, where Chiang was president...
...cotton futures $10 a bale for every cent a pound rise above 25?. (At the present price of 26? a pound, on the New York Exchange, this would increase margins 1½times.) Few knew whether this would hold down prices. But it raised the tempers of cotton patriots so high that they loudly threatened to liquidate OPA if it continued to tamper with the sacred right of cotton to rise as high as it pleased. Nevertheless, Stabilizer Bowles was stubbornly determined to check cotton prices. If increased margins did not work, ceilings would. No cotton patriot thought Bowles could...
Died. Feliks Nowowiejski, 68, first-rank conductor and patriot composer of Poland's national hymn, Rota,* who was stricken in 1942, while a Nazi captive, with complete, permanent paralysis; in Poznan...
Maurice Chevalier, longtime darling of Paris music halls, seven-year darling of Hollywood (1928-35), said he was coming to Broadway in February. He had just been okayed (for the third time) as a French patriot. Embraced by the underground in 1944, cleared as a collaborationist by the Government last September, he was now cleared by the National Committee of the Theatrical Purge...