Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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William Orville Douglas, 58, appointed by F.D.R. in 1939. Born in Minnesota, raised in Yakima, Wash., sheep-herded eastward to work his way through Columbia Law School with topflight record. Practiced in Wall Street, taught briefly at Columbia, brilliantly at Yale. A born rebel, became chairman of Securities and Exchange Commission in 1937, thereupon unleashed, in his own word, "sulphurous" attack on Wall Street. Although he had never been a judge, Roosevelt appointed him to the court on the retirement of Louis Brandeis. On the bench, pencil behind ear, hair awry, Presbyterian Douglas became a dauntless proponent of labor, civil...
...outright. Among the 70 injured was a 19-year-old girl who had both legs blown off. Far into the night, ambulances sped back and forth to the hospitals, their sirens wailing in the deathlike silence of the curfewed city. Coming at the end of a week of Moslem rebel terror that had already taken the lives of 16 Europeans and wounded more than 150, the outrage at the Casino de la Corniche was more than most French could stand...
Next day many French reacted with shame and revulsion. Embarrassed officials announced five Moslems killed (a low estimate), 200 Europeans arrested. Even the Algiers press^ which has long campaigned for an all-out fight against the rebel Moslems, found the rioting excessive. Said Echo d'Alger: "The boys who rioted were playing the rebels' game." In Paris, Figaro editorialized: "We are left speechless." But the students and veterans who had led the rioting were neither speechless nor ashamed. In a joint statement they proclaimed: "People of Algiers, once again you have displayed in a striking fashion your anger...
...When Rebel Leader Fidel Castro came down from his 150-mile-long Sierra Maestra hideout last month to smash an army garrison. President Fulgencio Batista launched a "campaign of extermination." Since then, the rebel band has not been sighted, let alone exterminated. Last week Batista sent a new field commander, Colonel Pedro A. Barrera Perez, to put an end to the six-month revolt...
...back with the certain knowledge that the odds had grown even worse. Against him now are most of the 1,798,000 people who live in Netherlands-size Oriente province and its capital, Santiago de Cuba. Santiago professional men shelter Castro's couriers in their homes, support the rebels by buying $5, $10 and $100 "bonds." Among workingmen, there is a brisk trade in $1 bonds. Businessmen arrange shipments of supplies to Castro. When the government reportedly purchased five rebel-tracking bloodhounds, Oriente resistance members scornfully loosed a pack of mongrels on the streets, each wearing a Castro...