Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crusaders. "Japan," rhapsodized Baldwin, "is an uplifting experience. It is a crusade." General MacArthur feels that he has an almost mystical duty to "purge the soul of the Japanese people. The Japanese are learning to stand up on their hind legs to authority." As avid to ape Western political and...
Congressmen who had been thundering, for an all-out purge of radicals in the State Department (see above) could point to a good example of what they meant and what to do about it. Carl Aldo Marzani, onetime OSS staffer, later a $7,175-a-year State Department economist, had...
The first real break in "principle" came with Roosevelt's "disastrous attempt to purge the Democratic Party of those who had opposed his will." Said Farley: "I could not and did not go along with him. . . . I believe that deep down inside, he never forgave me for putting party...
The Write-in Vote. A better test of Japanese democracy will come later this month, in national elections for the two houses of parliament. On the broader national scene, Prime Minister Yoshida's Liberal incumbents had used the purge powers given them by General MacArthur to get rid of...
Turning to the recent "purge" orders of the administration, the 61 year old scientist told the overflowing Garden audience that "the suppression of a Communist Party would merely be a preliminary for the suppression of other smear-able minorities. Would the Society of Jesus be next in line, or the...