Word: vile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...figure thus impeccably attired was not really Civilization, but just a powerful, angry American, name of Robert Jackson, of Jamestown, N.Y. But to the more imaginative (including Jackson) it was Civilization itself which stood at the prosecutor's rostrum, resonantly accusing the 20 Germans in the dock of vile assault & battery on all mankind...
...Vile worm!-oh madness! pride! impiety...
With this for a starter, The Hat tore into the Governor and all local tickets (except his own, headed by No Deal Party man Newbold Morris), hurled the name "politician" as though it were a vile epithet. He raked New York's ancient political machines from The Bronx to Brooklyn, despaired of his carefully nurtured "good government" if Morris failed at the polls. He even attempted to sell his man to Tom Dewey: "Governor Dewey. I ask you ... do the big thing . . . admit the hopelessness of Goldstein's campaign...
Patton called the press in for a retake, blamed the whole thing on his unfortunate "analogies" and newspapers' "startling headlines." Then, chafing under his orders, he declared: 1) that what he had said should not "reflect on my commanding officer, General Eisenhower"; 2) that "so vile a thing as Naziism" could not be got rid of overnight. The net implication was that he was right the first time (when he had compared "this Nazi thing" to "a Democratic and Republican election fight...
Berlin's City Council (of whose five key members three are Communists) decreed the confiscation of all property owned by Nazis and "all other persons who took an active part in the propagation of Naziism, who committed vile acts against others" or made profits from the Nazi regime. Purely personal belongings were exempted; businesses, houses and lands were presumably affected. Since the Nazis had bought up, confiscated or controlled most German business and industry, this decree was equivalent to a nationalization of property. Said the Berlin radio: "The importance of the decree is likely to reach far beyond Berlin...