Word: gestapoed
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...light one of the busiest speakers in the rightist movement: W. Cleon Skousen, a balding, bespectacled onetime FBIman who hit the anti-Communist circuit in earnest in 1960. after being fired from his job as Salt Lake City's police chief ("He operated the police department like a Gestapo." says Salt Lake City's conservative Mayor J. Bracken Lee). Skousen freely quotes the Bible, constantly plugs his book, The Naked Communist, presses for a full congressional investigation of the State Department...
...nation, Mitchell was in no mood to back down. When Newburgh's own welfare director admitted that he, too, thought the code illegal, Mitchell and the city council forced his resignation, appointed a more pliable acting commissioner, ordered a departmental shakeup. Mitchell denounced investigating state-welfare officials as "Gestapo agents," and fortnight ago he put his code into effect. Last week he carried his fight to Washington, and waded deep into the choppy waters of Republican politics...
...Harvard contemporary, Franklin Roosevelt, for two diplomatic posts (minister to Portugal, then Hungary) and as U.S. member of the U.N. Commission for the Investigation of War Crimes; on a Munich street, while escorting his grandson on a grand tour. In 1945, after urging the indictment of the entire Nazi Gestapo, Pell proved more vengeance-driven than the nation, lost the U.N. commission post when Congress neglected to appropriate his salary...
...WORLD), his son, Nicolas Eichmann, 25, remained dutiful and defiant in an interview in Parade. Believing his lieutenant colonel father a scapegoat, the 25-year-old electrician nonetheless said: "I expect the judges to sentence him to death." Claiming that until last year he believed the ex-Gestapo officer to be his uncle, Nicolas insisted that "there were not so many Jews killed as has been charged. Besides, I have heard that these executions were ordered by top Jews themselves, because they believe Jews should be martyrs." As for himself-after such macabre outbursts as "I should have cards printed...
...that used to be. The script offers only an occasional chuckle. General: "Hurry up; General Eisenhower is waiting." Danny: "Well, tell him not to. I don't do him." When he is captured, Danny gets a reel and a half of pantomime in which to play a Gestapo agent, a Luftwaffe pilot, a fur-wrapped matron and Marlene Dietrich (singing Cocktails for Zwei). It's funny-but it seems to have been lobbed in because the script was getting just too dull for words...