Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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He was never a particularly distinguished jurist; it was not his game. But he did make his voice heard in defense of civil liberties-in which he included the right of Jehovah's Witnesses even to blaspheme his own Catholic Church. He protested the court-martial of the Japanese...
Fumio Tanaka and Shosuke Matsumoto, both 24 and friends since boyhood, attended the same high school, fought with the Japanese forces, and are now completing their economic studies at Tokyo's Keio University. Their common background even includes the purge of both their fathers: Tanaka's because he...
In Washington, the C.I.O. executive board put a squeeze on the eleven left-wing members it has been trying to purge since last year's convention. It ordered the eleven union leaders to get in line with C.I.O. policies (support of the Marshall Plan, Atlantic pact), get out, or...
At the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, three instructors were dismissed in May, 1948. All three were supporters of the Wallace party, and charged that they were victims of a "political purge."
But Harry Truman was willing enough to purge some Congressmen if he could. He had failed in his all-out attempt to repeal the Taft-Hartley act because too many Democrats had voted against it. His legislative leaders were dejectedly advising compromise. Labor leaders came in to commiserate and to...