Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dr. Leiserson replaces Donald Wakefield Smith who has had a recess appointment since his term expired last August. To replace William Leiserson on NMB, the President chose another man small in stature, large in repute: David John Lewis, the learned, lovable, little Maryland ex-Congressman who was used last year...
This renewed threat of a Democrat Party purge forecast active Roosevelt participation in the 1940 primaries and, in the continued omission of a personal disclaimer, promised the continued presence of Franklin Roosevelt as a censor of other candidacies if not a real candidate.
The Ambassador has had many narrow escapes, the closest being in the 1934 Nazi purge, when only President von Hindenburg's protection and friendship saved him from assassination. Friends and associates have not been so lucky. His political supporters were wiped out in the purge and the body of...
The late General Kurt von Schleicher, who was murdered in the Nazi purge by SS Guards, once described von Papen as: "The kind of traitor beside whom Judas Iscariot is a saint."
Pre-War. Simultaneously U. S. citizens, previously preoccupied by three long years of Depression, were compelled to take a new interest in foreign news. Strange news it was at first, confused, murky, seething, a sequence of brutal events, of medieval vengeance wreaked with modern weapons, news of German book-burnings...