Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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>U. S. political crack-of-the-week was credited to Franklin Roosevelt, speaking apropos the Purge of New York's Representative O'Connor (see p. 12): "Harvard lost the schedule but won the Yale game."
Honking motorcades, truckloads of young street sheiks making faces and tooting horns, brought to a close last week the last of the Purge primaries, in New York's 16th or "Gashouse" Congressional district, Manhattan. It had been the perfect picture of a Tammany fight, with plenty of mud-slinging...
To Mr. Roosevelt's genuine surprise, his man won. After seeing his three other prime Purge efforts defeated in Georgia, South Carolina, Maryland, he had predicted that disobedient Chairman John J. O'Connor of the House Rules Committee would defeat obedient, one-legged James H. Fay by 500...
Defeated by local issues, not involved in the Purge-California's McAdoo, Idaho's Pope.
In final desparation Thomas Leary hit upon one final scheme. He attempted to got President F. D. Roosevelt to come to Cambridge and make a speech to purge his opponent; Leary was sure his opponent would walk to victory.