Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guardia was chilly too: a gauntlet of 15 solemn New York cops, two FBI men who pinned her with a Federal Grand Jury subpoena, and a pack of 50 reporters. Why, the reporters wanted to know, had the Russians thrown her out after she had plugged passionately for the Red cause for some 30 of her 64 years...
...District Court. Before a jury of five women and seven men, she slipped into the role of a foolish gentlewoman as though it were a loose kimono, got a handkerchief within easy dabbing distance of her eyes, and set out to explain that she had been true to the red, white & blue all the time...
...minute, 1949 model of the old Southern political boss, Hummon had shown a marked talent for exploiting credulity, prejudice and ignorance without all of the stage props which old Gene needed. Once in office he snapped no red galluses. He was as subdued as a Talmadge could be. He steered an endless stream of visitors in & out of his crowded office with an efficiency that Tom Dewey could admire, greeting visitors with a fast-fading smile...
...York City may be sound to the core, but it is rotten around the edges. From Red Hook to Hell's Kitchen in the muttering jungle of New York's 771-mile waterfront, bollard-necked hoodlums have long kept things regular with gun, knife, cargo hook and dornick. They have prospered so well and without challenge that they have been forced to kill only about 20 men in ten years in & around the docks. Now & then one of the hoodlums went to the chair for it, but business was fine otherwise. According to the best estimates, they stole...
Miss Small became associate-director of Admissions in January, 1946, after serving for three years in the European sector as a member of a Red Cross Mobile Unit...