Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Practical Democrats knew that personal Presidential purges did not usually pay off. In his 1938 purge campaign even Master Tactician Franklin Roosevelt had been able to unseat only one of the five obstreperous Democratic Congressmen he had set out to get. It is axiomatic that local voters do not like...
¶ From Moscow came the official announcement that an industrial purge, ranging from Leningrad to Tomsk (Siberia) was in full swing. Factory officials, whose activities ranged from coal mining to automobile manufacture, were charged with mismanagement, corruption, embezzlement, forgery.
Bigger & Better. Although Texas had not yet called for a polio team, the largest state was not to be denied the largest whoop & holler. The sale of DDT was up 600%; old cotton-duster planes were spraying creek beds (although medical authorities question the effectiveness of such measures) ; a health...
The Americans balked over what, in effect, was a political purge in favor of pro-Russian parties. Since! there was no meeting of minds on that issue, the Americans shifted to another. Would the Russians consent to "remove the 38th degree parallel boundary as an obstacle to the reunification of...
Even the charge that Stalin poisoned Lenin is linked to the fact that during the Purge trials Stalin convicted his NKVD chief, Henry Yagoda, of poisoning Novelist Maxim Gorky and Soviet Control Commission Chairman Valerian Kuibyshev (as if President Truman were to charge FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover with poisoning...