Word: shirts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...police chased O'Duffy across a plowed field, lost him to a crowd finally nabbed him but not before he had shouted martyr-wise to his followers: "I am still wearing a blue shirt and our cause will go on. Be calm, and we shall win although I am in prison." Then he was hustled off to jail, on a charge of wearing a blue shirt...
...Arbour Hill Prison outside Dublin. The Arbour Hill Prison under Minister of Defence Frank Aiken has won the name of "Aiken's Grand Hotel." The General resided in the "Grand barely 48 hours. His lawyers apparently agreed with the State in thinking that to wear a blue shirt was an arrestable offense, but when the case came up before nonpolitical, irremovable Justice O'Byrne of the Free State's High Court he brushed aside the de Valera ban on blue shirts, peremptorily ordered General O'Duffy's release...
...Blue Shirt Movement," crowed the General, quick to seize his advantage is perfectly legal and Constitutional We will carry on until, as I hope and believe Irish people entrust us with the Government of this country." He announced that he would sue the Government for false arrest...
...using it as the excuse for Chancellor Hitler's suppression of the Communist, Socialist and other German parties; the legend that Nazi firebugs escaped down the underground passage connecting the Reichstag with the official residence of General Göring, leaving Van der Lubbe to wave his burning shirt in the Reichstag and be arrested...
When Housepainter Adolf Hitler was a Gefreiter (lance corporal) in the German army during the War, Carpenter Ignatz Westenkirchner was a private in his squad. Many an afternoon Carpenter Ignatz cleaned his mess kit and read and reread his shirt while Housepainter Adolf talked of the things he was going to do later...