Word: gestapo
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...Mechling cried over the radio that Biltz gouged him in the clinches in his unsuccessful Senate race with Republican George ("Molly") Malone, a good many Nevadans just didn't quite follow him. When Mechling charged that Biltz was a sinister political boss, who held the state in a "Gestapo-like grip" and stifled the state's press, most were just flabbergasted. Nevada seems like the last place in the world any self-respecting political boss would enter the bossing business...
...Free Back." At length, at 6 o'clock one morning came the knock on his door. He told the two Gestapo men who had come to get him that they would have to give him two hours to himself or carry him bodily through the streets; then he spent the time writing to his daughter in England and paying all his bills...
...relishing a larger mouthful than usual: Franz Dahlem, No. 3 German Communist. Lorraine-born Comrade Dahlem, a Communist delegate to the German Reichstag from 1928 to 1932, was an International Brigade commissar in the Spanish Civil War. Interned by the French in 1939, he was turned over to the Gestapo three years later by the Vichy government and moved to a German concentration camp, from which he was liberated by the Red army...
Strictly enforced, the sweeping terms of the bill could well lead to Gestapo-like investigations of all professed liberals. And when the implication points ultimately to the presidents, as leaders, not only the individual suspect, but the whole institution, suffers...
...night of St. Valentine's Day, 1944, Gestapo agents marched into the village of La Tronche, near Grenoble, France, and arrested two Jewish refugees from Austria, Dr. Fritz Finaly and his wife Annie. The Finalys were never seen again. They left two children behind them, Robert, 3, and Gerald...