Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eight months ago while the Hitlerites scrabbled for power, their chief news- paper, Der Angriff, published a juicy scoop: Lieut. Col. Theodore Düsterberg, Imperial General Staff veteran, drillmaster and second-in-command of the Stahlhelm, veterans' organization, had a Jewish grandfather (TIME, Sept. 19). It was expected...
Last week President Roosevelt appointed Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles to be Ambassador to Cuba (see p. 12). "Persona grata" to the Government, he was at once marked by anti-Machado Cubans as the catalytic that may somehow purge Cuba of Terror. They believed that Dictator Machado did not...
The danger in this present bill is that it will form a precedent. This is such an easy remedy that it may be used too frequently instead of methods that will cure fundamental economic diseases. Inflation, of course, cannot purge the economic system of inefficient industries, overproduction in certain fields...
President Hoover's soft-voiced pleas to purge the pension rolls fell on deaf ears at the Capitol. Special Congressional committees investigated only to report disagreement and deadlock. The National Economy League took the field in response to widespread sentiment against nonmilitary disability allowances. But the thumbscrew tactics of...
Mr. Liggett is chairman of Drug, Inc., one of the biggest U. S. industrial concerns (1931 earnings: $19,000,000; assets: $175,000,000). Although Drug owns the Liggett drugstores, its chief source of income is from making and selling such products as Fletcher's Castoria, Life Savers, 3...