Word: gestapoed
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...paper explored the causes of the slump-and many lined up with the New York Herald Tribune in blaming the President. "What might be called the Republican guess," said the Daily News, "is that President John F. Kennedy brought on the recent market slumps and slides with his savage, Gestapo-like attack on the steel companies. Democrats guess otherwise . . . that the market re-entry actually was caused by a widespread realization that the era of inflation in this country is over for a long time to come. Our own hunch is that Columnist Walter Lippmann taxed the President with throttling...
...long (2 hr., 20 min.), but it is also incessantly exciting, occasionally witty (wife describes philandering husband: "He told me I was one in a million and I discovered he was telling the truth") and in its exposition of organized sadism comparatively subtle. All too often Hollywood's Gestapo agents are popeyed, fat-necked baby peelers. Seaton's monsters look the way monsters usually look - like everybody else...
...speak in Germany and was arrested and deported by the Gestapo. After the out break of World War II, Barth issued a flurry of powerful, evangelical epistles opposing Naziism. "The enterprise of Adolf Hitler," he wrote, "with all its clatter and fireworks, and all its cunning and dynamic energy, is the enterprise of an evil spirit, which is apparently allowed its freedom for a time in order to test our faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ...
...protest against a strong civil rights plank in the party platform. Reconvening three days later in Birmingham, rebelling Democrats set themselves up as the States' Rights Party, nominated Governor Strom Thurmond for President. His wife at his side, Thurmond campaigned in earnest, sounded alarms against "the federal gestapo," wound up with a popular vote of 1,169,063 and the electoral votes of Alabama. Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina...
...former Gestapo colonel's excuse that he had only rounded up Jews for deportation to death camps, and had not killed any himself, was rejected by the court. "The legal and moral responsibility of him who delivers the victim to his death," said the judges, "is, in our opinion, no smaller, and may even be greater than the liability of him who does the victim to death." Similarly, the judgment dismissed as "of no avail" Eichmann's plea that he had only acted on orders from his government. This could not exempt "from their personal criminal responsibility those...