Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago spring cyclone cut a swath of political destruction through a group of New Deal lieutenants who had sought to "purge" Senator Guy Mark Gillette from the party in Iowa's Senatorial primary (TIME, June 13). Last week Franklin Roosevelt picked up the pieces and prepared for more...
A onetime Republican, Victor Christgau deserted that party after he was defeated for re-election to Congress in the 1932 primaries, turned up in Washington as an assistant administrator of AAA, where he lasted until Administrator Chester Davis' famed "purge" of radicals two years later. Victor Christgau was next...
The Significance. Depending on their sympathies, observers regarded the poll-priming furor as either: 1) the beginning of a hard-boiled Party purge which by 1940 might result in a serious Democratic schism; or 2) the pained but pointless howling of anti-New Dealers who, if driven into the wilderness...
Back upon the good books of the Social Security Board in Washington last week went the indigent aged, the needy blind, the dependent minors of Oklahoma. They had been cut off in March when Washington discovered monstrous and comical padding of the old-age rolls by corpses, well-off oldsters...
Two years ago General John Metaxas. with the help of George II, King of the Hellenes, became Premier and soon after War Minister, Navy Minister Air Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister. Added up, these offices spelled Dictator. Since that time short, fat, German-educated Dictator Metaxas has intermittently seen Red...