Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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By 1933, his expertness on this subject was so thoroughly recognized that he was a logical choice to go to Moscow with Bill Bullitt and set up the U.S. embassy. During the 1936-38 Moscow purge trials, he correctly reported to Washington that men were being judicially lynched in an...
But May's rosy glow has been whipped away by the ic political winds the Republicans now feel; reports from the states indicate a Democratic victor tomorrow. In a last minute attempt to win the margin his party needs, Vice President Nixon has been beating the campaign drum with a...
Evatt's own response was a political bombshell: he demanded last week that Labor's federal executive purge the party of its "subversive and disloyal groups," meaning not the quasi-Communists but the Catholic Actionists (who make up 20% of the executive itself). Since one-third of Australia...
Nominee Hall bounced into the political limelight four years ago by nosing out eight opponents in the race for lieutenant governor. In 1952 Governor Arn set out to purge Hall, ran a hand-picked candidate against him. Hall overrode the governor and won handily.
- More violent than Maxim Gorky's own death in August 1936. At first Moscow reported the old (68) man's death as natural, but in the vast purge trials two years later, the Kremlin charged NKVD Chief Genrikh Yagoda with hastening Gorky's end (enforced exposure to...