Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The man who instituted the art purge was General Basili Pertine, the Intendente (Government-appointed mayor). His former occupation: director of the Buenos Aires branch of Germany's Siemens-Schuckert firm.
> Many an observer took the Pearson flogging as further evidence of a Roosevelt turn to the right. Drew Pearson has a long and sometimes servile record as a pro-New Deal columnist, was one of the few journalistic apologists for the 1938 "purge" and the Court-packing scheme, has sent...
Old-Bolshevik Overtone. At any rate, modern music was unquestionably international inherently contrary to the soothing national strains of Russian folk music. In 1936 Joseph Stalin, already preparing for his celebrated purge of the old bolsheviks, was carving Russia a new nationalistic policy. In the eyes of Moscow's...
In his tough campaign against hillbilly-ish Eugene Talmadge last year, no Arnall supporters were more effective than college students infuriated by the Talmadge purge of the State's universities. Too young to vote, they worked on their parents, hounded local political leaders, burned Gene Talmadge in effigy all...
Washington and London had expected Generals de Gaulle and Giraud to tangle disruptively over the Liberation Committee's recent purge of elderly and ex-Vichyite officers. But the French leaders were more concerned with the war's trend, and in their concern De Gaulle won a signal diplomatic...