Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dogwood bloomed white and pink in Rock Creek Park and fishermen were out along the Potomac. Vacationing tourists were everywhere-swarming through the Capitol's dark corridors, leveling their cameras at the White House and the Washington Monument. In this fine spring atmosphere members of the House approved what was probably a peacetime record for one week's check-signing ($24 billion), then headed for home and a ten-day vacation. The Senate, far behind in its work, labored...
...legend, he had come out of the lumber camps of the Northwest. At first glance he looked the part-big, broad-shouldered, ruddy and impressive. At second glance he turned out to be a puffy, tweedy, middle-aged man with fluffy grey hair, a small, uncertain mouth and plump, pink cheeks...
Children of Revolution. By then, the party line had been changed. The orders from Moscow were to soft-pedal talk of revolution, work surreptitiously, bore into labor, into Roosevelt's New Deal. It was the beginning of the Pink Decade, when communism hid its face behind a hundred bland fronts, and thousands of U.S. citizens-the well-meaning, the intellectual, the starry-eyed and the muddleheaded-flocked around its feet...
...Dennis' chief exploit of the Pink Decade was in the labor field. He made a Communist out of violent Harold Christoffel, an aggrieved electrical apprentice at Allis-Chalmers, manufacturers of industrial machinery. Christoffel married Ann Sabljak. Under Dennis' direction, Christoffel engineered a seizure of the State C.I.O. Council. With the help of a goon squad, Christoffel seized and dominated Allis-Chalmers' C.I.O. auto workers' union. In 1941 Dennis' work paid off. It was the period of the Stalin-Hitler pact, when...
...door of every Labor Party bigwig was entitled Labor Believes in Britain. One wag recalled Carlyle's comment to a young lady who declared that she had accepted the Universe: "By God, Madam, you'd better!" A lot of work had gone into its cherry-red, pink-striped covers. For over a year, an army of party researchers had dredged up basic facts. Recently, during a nice weekend on the Isle of Wight, the 27-man Labor Party executive, sparked by Morrison, sifted the data and started knocking a platform together...