Word: gestapoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harlow Shapley's scheduled appearance before the house Committee on Un-American Activities ended yesterday in a blaze of accusations and counter-accusations as Shapley charged Representative John E. Rankin (D-Miss.), who sat as a one-ma committee to hear him as a witness, of "Gestapo." tactics and Rankin countered by announcing contempt action against the well-known scientist...
...stand on my rights as an American citizens," said Shapley, "and will not submit to the star chamber methods of the gestapo used by Rankin. It is time that this most un-American of all procedures in this country is recognized as the Nazi method and that it be eliminated so that private citizens can be free under our constitution...
...Count Ciano for protection against the Duce's wrath. When the war came he had no trouble getting accredited to German armies in the Ukraine, Poland and Finland. The publisher's jacket, which tells none of this, describes Malaparte only as a man who dodged the Gestapo and ducked the Fascists...
Ernst Kaltenbrunner, burly, scar-faced No. 2 man to the late Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler...
Alan Ladd, second only to Humphrey Bogart in consecutive hours of gun toting on the screen, tensely blows up tunnels, sends coded radio messages, and outwits the gestapo for Uncle Sam in "O.S.S." Based on actual events and produced under government supervision, Ladd's efforts as a spy in France just before and after the Normandy invasion generate a steady, if low, level of interest...