Word: organ
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Schwarze Korps, organ of the Black Shirts, published this revealing paragraph, showing how Hitler's crusade has backfired: "It is absolutely wrong to assume that Germany is fighting Russia to liberate Europe from Bolshevism. . . . We are fighting, not to save culture, civilization or democracy, but merely to save Germany...
Highly enjoyable to hefty, bespectacled William Connor was the national hubbub about his broadcast. In his office at the Mirror he continued to turn out vitriolic screeds in longhand, taking time out occasionally to blow a few toots on his mouth organ, an inspirational aid. Said he last week...
Away went the chandeliers, pianos and knickknacks to dealers; a church bought the built-in organ. Bidding for the house and grounds started at $5,000, went to $16,000. Roared the auctioneer: "The U.S.O. and the Navy are seriously considering this estate. You are looking at a steal, ladies and gentlemen!" Before he could finish his going-going-gone, a little lady named Anita Niesen cried: "Twenty-one thousand!'' A group of auctioneers rushed her into another room, slammed the door. Said Mrs. Niesen: she was buying the house as a birthday present for her daughter, Singer...
...purge of Marshal Mikhail Tukachevsky was partly caused by his objection to the revival of the powers of political commissars. The Finnish war, after Marshal Tukachevsky and 213 other officers had been liquidated, showed that they were right. Commissars were dismissed and the Soviet Army organ, Red Star, declared: "War does not tolerate dilettantism. . . . The great Stalin urges us to face reality and not lock ourselves in shells of ossified dogma. . . . The discipline of the Red Army must be stronger, sterner, and more exacting." Marshal Timoshenko told his officers: "Teach your troops only what is necessary for war and only...
Portuguese newspapers spoke out plainly. Diario de Manhā, organ of Portugal's sole Party of National Union, observed sadly that Portugal had always regarded the U.S. as "one of the last irreducible bulwarks defending certain principles of law and international morality," but that the new U.S. theory of hemisphere defense "opens the way to the most perilous adventures...