Word: revolutionist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Archconservative, 59-year-old General Dutra was a thorough and frequent revolutionist until he connected with a successful insurrection. The Revolution of 1904 caught him up in its whirl even before he got through his cadet's training; consequently Brazilian officerdom speaks of him as a "Pescoqo de Sola" (Leatherneck)-a ranker. In the 1924 revolution, Dutra again fought the Government unsuccessfully. But he hit the jackpot in 1930 when he helped Vargas' "gauchos" ride into power. Since then he has been a staunch pillar of Brazil's neo-fascist "New State...
Some critics charged that Stalin had ceased, paradoxically, to be a revolutionist, at the moment when the Communist revolution was most successful. If it suited his present purposes, Stalin might have reminded his critics that he was the author of Russia's two official volumes of orthodox dogma: The History of the Communist Party and Leninism. Leninism is a best-seller (3,000,000 copies were sold a week after publication...
...conditioned the rest of T.V. Soong's life. The Soong children called Dr. Sun Yat-sen "uncle." But they were too busy climbing garden walls, studying Confucius, learning Chinese nursery rhymes, Jesus Loves Me, and the story of George Washington to know what the little revolutionist would mean to China and to them. T.V. was a weedy adolescent (he outgrew his clothes every three months, and Sister Mei-ling wore his hand-me-downs) when the Revolution of 1911 broke out. "Uncle" Sun was not even around. He was in a Denver, Colo. restaurant, collecting funds from Chinese sympathizers...
...Social Revolutionist. Ordained to the priesthood, Temple served successively as chaplain to the then Archbishop of Canterbury, headmaster of Repton School, rector of St. James's in Piccadilly, Canon of Westminster Abbey. In 1921 he was appointed Bishop of Manchester. Eight years later, at 48, he was made the youngest Archbishop of York in history...
...other was Vladimir Lenin. To the old revolutionist who in 1917 used to number the life of the Soviet Government in days ("Now we have lasted two days longer than the Paris Commune," "We have lasted two days longer than the Paris Commune.") the Anglo-Russian meeting would have meant success beyond his dreams. Well might he have said to his great disciple: "Khorosho!- A good...