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Committeemen emphasized that they were out to conduct a fair investigation of the Department and were making no "a priori assumptions." Clyde C. Snyder, Jr., a Business School supporter of the probe, commented, "We hope neither the students nor the University will consider this a purge."
It was no ordinary Soviet witch-burning, and Aleksandrov no ordinary witch. Ally of Politburo Member Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov, son-in-law of Politburo Member Nikita Khrushchev, he had powerful protectors. Himself a member of the Party's Central Committee, the boss of one of its most important branches...
A jovial, mule-stubborn, Missouri-born Republican, Bob Denham switched to the Democrats in 1938 to help beat Franklin Roosevelt's attempted purge of conservative Democratic Senator Millard Tydings. Officially he has never switched back. He first turned up in Washington officialdom in 1933 to help reorganize the closed...
The arrests were accompanied by a rat-a-tat fire of Moscow-inspired Groza decrees: drastic shake-up of the Ministry of Industry to insure adherence to Communist economics; virtual nationalization of industry; a budget cut to speed the purge of "unreliable" civil servants; an order empowering shop committees to...
When E. J. Kahn some months ago wrote a New Yorker article telling how his black horn-rimmed glasses had got him branded as a Communist, the anecdote was good for a big giggle. But today, with President and Republican opposition elbowing each other energetically in a scuffle to see...