BUF
Britishabbreviation
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Although the organization obviously included many anti-feminist men, it seems clear that the female members of the BUF played a very active role.
From Slate • Apr. 14, 2017
But newly available oral evidence and unpublished memoirs by surviving Blackshirts leave little room for traditional assumptions about the class and gender composition of the BUF.
From Slate • Apr. 14, 2017
The BUF itself had around 40,000 members in 1934 and a number of wealthy and influential supporters, including press magnate Lord Rothermere, owner of the Daily Mail, and an array of dukes, marquesses, and baronets.
From Slate • Mar. 27, 2017
But this may well have been an accident of timing: the BUF was unable to effectively contest the snap election of 1935.
From The Guardian • Mar. 7, 2013
Orion Clemens eagerly furnished a detailed memorandum of the route of their overland journey, which brought this enthusiastic acknowledgment: To Orion Clemens, in St. Louis: BUF.,
From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 2 (1867-1875) by Paine, Albert Bigelow
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