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Word: persecutees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such qualities, unflaggingly demonstrated by the Salvation Army through its 71-year history, had won it a measure of public support and respect, particularly in the U.S., that would have astonished the army's embattled first generation. But the workers in General Booth's host, like other dedicated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Was a Stranger ... | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

The Communists do not necessarily persecute the Jews for the Nazis' racial reasons, but mainly because so many of the Jews are small businessmen, i.e., bourgeois "class enemies." One example: of Budapest's 19,000 clothing and textile stores, 18,000 are owned by Jews. Many of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Back in Business | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

In 1774, guided by another revelation, Mother Ann and eight disciples came to America. Their first settlement was a swampy tract of land near Albany, N.Y., which the little band of English artisans laboriously cleared and drained. There they waited for the followers whom Mother Ann prophesied would join them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: One More River to Cross | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

TIME'S [April 14] presentation of the Flagstad case is a superb example of unbiased journalism. I might be wrong, but it was my impression that World War II ended two years ago. And didn't we defeat Naziism at that time? Or are we so insecure in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 5, 1947 | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

"Mass purges . . . are attended by many mistakes, primarily by the infringement of the Leninist principle of an individual approach to people. . . . There were numerous cases of unwarranted expulsions from the party, and of hostile elements who had wormed their way into the party taking advantage of the purges to persecute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: How To Wait | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

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