Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like a shotgun blast in a cornfield, Harry Truman's crack about too many "Byrds in the Congress" set off indignant flappings and cawings over Capitol Hill. The old cry of "purge" rang through its tiled corridors. The President was annoyed that the crack got out; he hadn'...
A good part of SCAP's first two years was spent in demilitarization and the purge of war-guilty officials. The trusts of the Zaibatsu, big family combines, were broken up. SCAP, however, had nothing to substitute for the old Japanese way of doing business. The Zaibatsu unquestionably carried...
Berlin will discuss the novel as a political and philosophical tract. Inkeles will talk on the political and historical background of the book, while Guerard will take up its literary aspects. "Darkness at Noon" deals with the experiences of a political prisoner during the Communist purge of 1936.
Majority Leader Benjamin F. Feinberg of New York's Republican state senate regarded it as "the finest bill I have ever sponsored during a long career [16 years] in the legislature." The bill: an act to purge fellow traveler and Communist teachers from the state public-school system. Other...
Died. Prince August Wilhelm ("Auwi") von Hohenzollern, 62, fourth son of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and only member of the royal family to join the Nazi party, which he served as an SA officer until Goring kicked him out in the 1934 purge; of a lung ailment; in Stuttgart.