Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Basic fact back of what was already being referred to as the "Belisha Purge" was that despite two years of furious rearming by Great Britain, production of heavy machine guns, tanks and artillery is way behind, there is a deficit of 12,000 men in the Army's authorized...
If proof were still lacking that the bloody Soviet purge of the past year was a brutally direct, Oriental method of ridding the modern Stalinist Russia of the oldtime, inefficient professional revolutionists who brought it into being, such proof seemed to become apparent last week in the shuffled appointments of...
Died. Winthrop Ames, 66, scholarly, devoted theatrical producer; of pneumonia; in Boston. At 7, Winthrop Ames thought H.M.S. Pinafore, newly come to Boston, a grand show. His father thought otherwise, declined an opportunity to invest in it. failed to share in the $1,000,000 the operetta reputedly earned. The...
Back in Germany, Ludecke did his aggressive best to keep Hitler out of bad company (Goring, Goebbels, Hindenburg, the industrialists), thought Roehm and Strasser the likely ones to help him. This proved a bad guess, and in 1933 Ludecke found himself in disfavor. On the day that Ludecke reached Manhattan...
Paradoxically the Vishinsky ruling did not seem last week to cramp the electioneering style of the Russian clergy. It appeared from stories in the Soviet press that nearly all the registered religious groups have been smart enough not to attempt to nominate a priest or bishop but are working to...