Word: purgee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sleepless De Gasperi wanted to continue coalition government. Communists, Socialists, Christian Democrats, Actionists, Labor Democrats agreed, but the Liberals insisted that De Gasperi promise to call off the purge of Fascists.
This week the Liberals capitulated. Still pale and weak, Premier De Gasperi announced a six-party Cabinet. The purge would continue under Socialist Vice Premier Pietro Nenni. As he and his ministers took their oaths in the Quirinal Palace, Alcide de Gasperi cried out in relief: "You wouldn't...
Prokofiev's music, like everybody else's in Soviet Russia, has to be okayed first by his fellow composers in a private "sitting," before it can be played in public. The sittings were pretty rough during the 1936-37 purge of "formalism" in music - which meant an end...
Bishop Dutoit and Auvity evidently felt duty-bound to resign from their dioceses. Last week, Pipe Pius XII accepted both resignations. Many in religious circles saw in the action the beginnings of a long-awaited "purge" of collaborationist clergymen. The New York Times predicted : "About 20 prelates are expected to...
When American Airlines' fast-growing predecessor, American Airways, swallowed T.A.T.'s successor, Southern Air Transport, in 1929, Hardin became American Airways chief pilot and general manager. Nine years later, a member and later chairman of the Air Safety Board of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, he helped write the...