Word: soapboxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Spanish. Says Translator Porter: "[It] is without dispute The Novel of the past century, not only for Mexico but for all Spanish-speaking countries." One press in Barcelona printed a million-odd copies annually. For millions of common people The Itching Parrot has been editorial page, moral preceptor, soapbox speech, liberalistic handbook, underground leaflet, scandal sheet, pulp-thriller, comic strip, and dirty-joke book. It has also been-and still is-an engaging story in which is made wonderfully vivid, as Mrs. Porter says, "the sprawling, teeming, swarming people of Mexico, ragged, eternally cheated . . . insatiably and hopelessly hungry, but indestructible...