Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The purge of Marshal Mikhail Tukachevsky was partly caused by his objection to the revival of the powers of political commissars. The Finnish war, after Marshal Tukachevsky and 213 other officers had been liquidated, showed that they were right. Commissars were dismissed and the Soviet Army organ, Red Star, declared...
Norman will reach the age limit (70) for Bank of England directors next October. Heretofore London's City had assumed that the limit would be extended for his benefit. Last week this was no longer a good bet. The failure of Britain's early war effort was followed...
For the first time since the disastrous Roosevelt "purge" of 1938, the President had taken a bold and active hand in a State election. Lyndon Johnson, who first announced his candidacy from the steps of the White House, was backed three times during the campaign by letters and telegrams from...
Following the Russian-Polish war, Timoshenko spent several years at Russian schools of war in special classes for soldiers who, like himself, were experienced but had never studied military science. In the early '30s he traveled abroad, studying "capitalistic" armies, and when Joseph Stalin began to purge the Soviet...
When Germany took the Rhineland Mussolini had an attack of ulcers. When Hitler conducted his blood purge Mussolini began losing his hair (and he has grown bald since then). When Hitler grabbed Austria, Mussolini had a heart attack. When Germany and Russia signed their Non-Aggression Pact, Mussolini was fitted...