"Tinfoil Hat Brigade"

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TIN HAT BRIGADE--313 Google hits
TINFOIL HAT BRIGADE--11,100 Google hits\
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The "tinfoil hat brigade" just came up. Anyone have anything on this? OED
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_Federal Reserve Corporation_
(http://groups.google.com/group/alt.censorship/browse_thread/thread/b991b312d14e5c63/f346d25674da521d?lnk=st&q="hat+brigade"&r
num=63&hl=en#f346d25674da521d)
... Mar 95 12:18:00 -0500 in article
<8A4D2E2.0019000664.uu... at graycat-bbs.com>, RUSS
WUERTZ wrote: <much  deleted> I see the tinfoil in the hat brigade is active
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_alt.censorship_ (http://groups.google.com/group/alt.censorship?lnk=sg&hl=en)
 - Mar 5 1995, 12:58 pm by Lizard - 2 messages - 2 authors
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_Labor's  Kirkland Wants Democrats to Be the 'Party of Compassion' Again;
Kirkland:  Democrats _
(http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=6&did=686387232&SrchMode=1&sid=2&Fmt=10&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=HNP&TS=1138748999&client
Id=65882)
Harry Bernstein. Los Angeles Times (1886-Current File). Los Angeles, Calif.:
Oct 23, 1983. p. E3 (2 pages)
First page:
Kirkland is more given to philosophizing than his  predescessors, although he
can be as cutting as Lewis who, for instance, once  defended organized labor
against its enemies by roaring that "no tin-hat brigade  of goose-stepping
vigilantes or Bible-babbling mob of black-guarding and  corporations-paid
scoundrels will prevent the onward march of  labor."
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     _The Morning Call_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Viewer.aspx?img=qfOSkbCfQu2KID/6NLMW2hgovIDur4HxZGoa7hFyZXKsIwra5yXi4A==)  _Thursday,  January 16,
1930_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="tin+hat+brigade"+AND+date:1930-01-16)  _Laurel,_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="tin+hat+brigade"+AND+cityid:15923+AND+stateid:57+AND+range:1759-1995)
_Mississippi_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="tin+hat+brigade"+AND+stateid:57+AND+range:1759-1995)   ...TIN  HAT BRIGADE-----Mr. Thomas
Private Picslinger, TIN  HAT BRIGADE .GroverJordan Private O' ... Cranford
Private  Sliwinski, TIN HAT BRIGADE-----John Jordan Private  Eckclbcrger, TIN
HAT M ... ..
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     _The Oshkosh Northwestern_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Viewer.aspx?img=Pf2/SIh9fJOKID/6NLMW2m9nBkR7NqB1dbaJa8fBVAccqeMQQh1ojQ==)  _Saturday,
September 04, 1937_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="tin+hat+brigade"+AND+date:1937-09-04)  _Oshkosh,_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="tin+hat+brigade"+AND+cityid:21696+AND+stateid:103+AND+range:17
59-1995)   _Wisconsin_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="tin+hat+brigade"+AND+stateid:103+AND+range:1759-1995)   ...... "in the  arts of
brutality mid oppression." I "-But no TIN HAT  BRIGADE of. goose Mopping ...

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