Word: aryanized
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...European to win the world title in 1930, and launched a famous rivalry when he knocked out American challenger Joe Louis in 1936; his loss in a 1938 rematch in Yankee Stadium became emblematic of the coming struggle with Nazi Germany. But he was miscast by Hitler as an Aryan superhero. He refused to join the Nazi Party and after the war, it was disclosed he had saved two Jews from attack in the Kristallnacht violence of 1938. A quiet philanthropist, he befriended Louis later in life, even paying for the impoverished former champ's 1981 funeral...
...beat Jack Sharkey on a foul in 1930. In 1936 he launched a famous rivalry when he knocked out U.S. challenger Joe Louis; his loss in a 1938 rematch at Yankee Stadium was hailed as a national triumph over Nazi Germany. But he was miscast by Hitler as an Aryan superhero; he refused to join the Nazi Party, and after the war, it was disclosed that he had saved two Jews from attack in the Kristallnacht violence in 1938. He befriended Louis later in life, quietly giving the impoverished former champ money and paying for his 1981 funeral...
DIED. RICHARD BUTLER, 86, white supremacist who in the early 1970s founded a 20-acre compound in rural Idaho called the Aryan Nations, spawning chapters in a dozen states and contacts with neo-Nazis around the globe; in Hayden, Idaho. Dubbed "the elder statesman of hate" by civil rights advocates, the former aerospace engineer housed a spectrum of right-wing extremists, some of whom would later be convicted of racially motivated crimes. Butler himself claimed he was against violence, however, and operated relatively unhindered until he was bankrupted by a $6.3 million lawsuit in 2001--stemming from a 1998 incident...
...DIED. RICHARD G. BUTLER, 86, founder of the white-supremacist group Aryan Nations; in Hayden, Idaho. Butler, who developed his racist ideology after witnessing the caste system while in India during World War II, became a high priest of white hate, preaching that blacks were inferior and Jews evil. His movement spawned chapters in a dozen states and contacts around the globe but was effectively bankrupted by a $6.3 million lawsuit in 2001 filed by a woman and her son who were assaulted by Aryan Nations guards outside Butler's Idaho compound...
...California. As an IBM engineering manager, he convinced the company to invest more than $5 billion in developing the famous S/360 class computer that helped turn IBM into a data-processing power soon after its introduction in 1964. DIED. RICHARD BUTLER, 86, white supremacist whose compound in rural Idaho, Aryan Nations, was the center of a U.S. neo-Nazi network with links around the globe; in Hayden, Idaho. Though some of his followers were later convicted of race crimes, Butler, a former aerospace engineer, ran the compound openly until a 1998 assault by his guards on a Native American woman...