Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ The government set up seven purge committees to probe every dark corner of Egyptian public life-from dealings in public lands to cotton-market manipulations and the Palestine arms scandal.
Now a new reforming general, Mohammed Naguib, is in power. How is he doing? In three weeks he has become Egypt's Indispensable man. Rarely in history has so much power been won with so little effort. Starting out to purge Egypt's army, Naguib became Egypt'...
"Now We Warn." Naguib told the political parties: "Purge yourselves," and in three days the corrupt Wafd expelled 14 small fry, including three former ministers, hoping Naguib wouldn't notice that the two big boys, Mustafa el Nahas and Fuad Serag el Din were still running things. But Naguib...
The Palestine Scandal. The indictment was overdrawn but not incorrect. Farouk, who could have been an uncommonly intelligent and able King (and occasionally was), turned out in the main to be an uncommonly gross and unrestrained one. He gave free rein to all his appetites-from women to power, and...
In Los Angeles, Mrs. Edith Kermit Roosevelt Barmine, 24, granddaughter of Teddy Roosevelt, filed suit for divorce from Alexander G. Barmine, ex-Soviet general and diplomat, who turned anti-Communist during the 1937 purge. Her charge: cruelty and nonsupport.