Word: rousers
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...Dixiecrats? Let's wait, the President said, and see how the thing works out. In one respect it had worked already; Truman had passed up crusty old John Rankin's man for postmaster in Columbus, Miss. There was nothing to be gained by buttering up Rabble-rouser Rankin...
...Jackson, Negro pastor of St. Paul's Baptist Church: "Even in my own church I was told that you can't fight gambling and prostitution. When I chose to fight the rackets, I was rapped by one of our Negro papers as a 'rabble-rouser.' The cure has got to come from within...
Harry Truman had certainly stuck in his thumb and pulled out a plum. From being a fading and futile minority President he had suddenly appeared in a new and more popular guise as an effective rabble-rouser. It remained to be seen whether the U.S. would agree with him that he was really a good...
Died. Albert Carl Grzesinski, 68, German democrat, Minister of the Interior (1926-30) for the Weimar Republic; of pneumonia; in Queens, N.Y. In 1931, as Berlin's Police President, he tried to gag Rabble-Rouser Hitler, ordered him deported as an undesirable alien, but Chancellor Heinrich Brüning did not sign the order, and a year later the Nazis hounded Grzesinski out of the country...
Sued, by C.I.O.'s Walter P. Reuther: a new Detroit periodical which he charged linked him with Rabble-Rouser Gerald L. K. Smith. U.A.W. President Reuther figured he had been libeled $500,000 worth...