Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Entering the White House, Ike felt sure he could quickly smooth out presidential relationships with Congress. It was not that easy: in 1953 came the thoughts of a third party-and the conflicts with congressional diehards continued in 1954. At a Cabinet meeting, when the furor over Republican Senator John...
Ten Days That Shook. In his welcoming speech at the 20th Party Congress, Khrushchev had said: "The unity of our party was being built up during the years and decades. It grew and became stronger in the struggle with numerous enemies-the Trotskyites, the Bukharinites, the bourgeois nationalists and other...
THE RED ARMY PURGE
But is this really a good thing? How close to the University can alumni get before they start to dictate its educational policies? Is the current alumni revolution just what books like God and Man at Yale are pleading for when they urge that alumni return to the campus, use...
A glance at Harvard history would suggest that there is. Virtually every President of the University has had to rebuff alumni who tried to use their financial power to control educational policy. In 1650 Dunster faced attempts to purge the Yard of "antipaedobaptism." Leverett in 1717 was threatened for his...