Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Purge
In your March 4 issue, p. 22, col. 1 you say: "The job used to be held by Stalin's 'Dear Friend' Sergei Kirov, whose bumping-off in 1934 gave the world a new word: purge."
Together with over 2,000 other Jews, he was seized by the police and sentenced to a concentration camp. "The power of Poe would not be strong enough to describe the horrors of the purge and the trip to the camp," he said.
Dear Friend No. 2. It is a Soviet tradition that the No. 2 Bolshevik shall run the No. 2 Russian city. The job used to be held by Stalin's "Dear Friend" Sergei Kirov, whose bumping-off in 1934 gave the world a new word: purge. To succeed Kirov...
For holding-company complications, the aviation business was getting almost as bad as the public utilities until the Air Mail Purge hit the industry in 1934. By the time that was over big holding companies like North American and United Aircraft & Transport had been forced to unscramble; their airline and...