Word: rousers
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...unorganized, politically impressionable, socially semi-literate, and that we are due for hard times when demagogues may make hay. You are reminded that the fanatics serve as the fall guys of this country's fascism; that the root of the evil lies in the transmission belt from rabble-rouser to Big Money, "the link between the dirty shirts and the stuffed shirts...
...fight back against Yugoslavia's Nazi invader. But when Hitler turned his guns against Soviet Russia, Josip Broz, the Communist toolmaker who called himself "Tito," appeared on the scene. To Mihailovich, the exiled government's official military leader, Tito may have seemed no more than a rabble-rouser leading a pack of bandits. Mihailovich clearly felt it his duty to unify Yugoslav resistance under his leadership and to hold his forces in readiness for the day when the Allies struck at the Germans from outside the country. But Mihailovich failed to liquidate Tito, whose power waxed...
...Rebel-Rouser. In his yellow brick headquarters in Manhattan's Chelsea district, next door to a home for wayward girls and across the street from the General Theological Seminary, Croly assembled a motley crew of insurrectionists. Into his journal went some of the best of Walter Lippmann, Francis Hackett, Elinor Wylie, Rebecca West, Robert Morss Lovett, Edmund Wilson. At his famous staff luncheons, everyone talked in low tones-in' deference to Croly's own shy near-whisper. In the eyes of New Republicans, Croly was a scholar journalist, and Oswald Garrison Villard, his opposite number...
...gale of war had blown itself out, and now a big swell was running: labor unrest. It crashed on every industrial shore in the nation (see Labor), spread beyond the factories. In strike-stormy Detroit, cops clashed with labor-union men picketing a meeting of Rabble-rouser Gerald L. K. Smith's followers, and men went down under blows of swinging nightsticks. High-school children in New York City, Chicago and Gary, Ind., swirled out in a rash of protests, racial disputes and wholesale hooliganism (see EDUCATION...
William Ralph Inge (rhymes with sing), 84, retired "Gloomy Dean" of London's St. Paul's Cathedral, who once charged that Martin Luther (rather than Hitler) was the "evil genius" of Germany, let fly another rouser: "The truth is that it is difficult not to like the Germans when one meets them in private life. . . . I do not think that the mass of German people wanted this war. ... I cannot help hoping that if we have to occupy part of Germany we shall let our unwilling hosts see the best side...