Word: crusher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dewey went back to Manhattan, his only hope to pin a murder indictment on Lepke, which would take precedence over Federal charges. It looked as if Frank Murphy was one up on Tom Dewey for the title of No. 1 U. S. crime-crusher...
...business but radio the loss of a million and a half account would be a crusher, but to NBC it was just an unhappy horse trade. NBC lost Amos 'n' Andy, but promptly picked off the Robert Benchley-Artie Shaw Old Gold show, a Sunday night half-hour that was bringing CBS $10,830 weekly. This becomes an NBC show beginning...
Lately, vexed at the waning influence of the atheists and the tenacity of Christianity, Stalin started his crusher to work on churchmen-in particular on Metropolitan Sergius, head of the Orthodox Church, and Metropolitan Vitalius, head of the Living Church (TIME, Jan. 24). These dignitaries, and a great many more, were accused in the Soviet press of everything from drinking champagne with nuns to plotting assassinations of Soviet officials. Last week, with at least 20 bishops in jail and one, Metropolitan Theophan of Gorki, reported executed, the threat of the crusher appeared to have "converted" at least one potential victim...
After last night's practice, Coach Caspar Crusher expressed satisfaction at the team's improvement. "The boys are coming along fine," he said. "That Radcliffe match was just a drop in the bucket; we're really pointing for Wellesley...
Moscow correspondents, refused official information, picked up from terrified Christians reports that not only the Orthodox but also the Lutheran clergy are being "ruthlessly purged." Although the Government did not admit the arrest of the Metropolitans no one in Moscow doubted that it had taken place. Stalin's crusher was once more at work...