Word: soapboxed
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There was the handsome ex-Yorkville Jew-baiter, Joe McWilliams, resplendent in a red-white-&-blue necktie. McWilliams, the Great Profile of the American soapbox, is now the self-appointed leader of the bonus army of World War II. (He is agitating for a $7,800 government bonus for every World War II veteran.) His new backer, blonde, young, black-gowned Socialite Mrs. Alexis de Tarnowsky, accompanied him. Altogether, there were more than 1,000 of them (the Chicago Tribune puffed...
John Burns was born in Thames-side Battersea, the son of an engineer. When he was ten he left school to work in a candle factory. The soapbox soon drew him; when he was 20 he landed in jail for making a radical speech. He fought for "gas and water" socialism in the East End slums, and on into Parliament as Britain's first Labor...
George Thomas Cummins, cockney moviemaker of London has found that the old socialist sidewalk technique is sound business-the way to get an audience is to jump on a soapbox and raise your voice. The Cummins soapbox is British Paramount News,* makers of news shorts, which Cummins organized in 1931, and of which he is director and editor...
...exploiter of the war emergency Publisher Powell has no superior. Lambasting U.S. "pseudo-democracy," he advocates complete world equality of Negroes and whites. "This war," he has declared in his "Soapbox" column, "upon the basis that it is now being waged, is utterly futile...
Before entering politics via the soapbox, this bombastic orator was a teamster, storekeeper, baker, and truck-owner, shuttling between Boston and Cambridge for a living. Today he still has his small trucking business, but it isn't this that keeps him on the go. "It's the politics," as Mike calls it. "It sort of gets in your blood, and you can't get it out." During one election, the word went around that if Mickey showed up at a certain rally he'd be tossed out the window by his enemies. Mickey showed up. He wasn't going...