Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little embarrassed by all the ceremony, Harry Truman quietly waited the day which would bring him into the presidency in his own right. He worked on his inaugural address, admired his wife's and daughter's new clothes (a black-and-grey silk for Bess Truman, red gabardine for Margaret), answered his own invitation to the ceremonies with a little gag: "Weather permitting, I hope to be present...
...Into the Red. Coolidge, too, had saved money in the White House. But in the final year of the Hoover Administration, Congress made all governmental salaries, including the President's, taxable. By 1944 taxes took more than half of the President's salary. In his twelve years in the White House, Franklin Roosevelt never got out of the red, but he had his own and his mother's fortune to fall back...
...during the presidential campaign, the Democratic Party had paraded its poverty. But last week, the 1948 financial statements of the two major parties, on file with Congress, showed the Democrats were in the black, the Republicans in the red. Obviously there was nothing like a victory to stimulate the check-writing muscles: the Democratic National Committee had collected $2,308,211, and had $51,432 left in the till. The Republican National Committee, which spent $2,736,334, was $228,938 in the hole...
...Nobody saw August Simolke. But finally last autumn, one of his sons-in-law read that the body of a man was lying unclaimed at the city morgue. He investigated. He hurried back, brought Jennie and others of the family. They identified the body instantly. There were two unmistakable red dots on his face, and the second finger of his left hand was twisted as it had always been...
...nights later, he was roused from his bed. Communist officials showed him a photograph of two priests holding a long metal cylinder. In this, they said, were found the documents which incriminated the cardinal. "The case has blown wide open," said one Red. "Now you'll have to prove yourself." Then they gave Koczan a handwritten petition and told him to sign it. The text denounced Mindszenty for his "treasonable, underhanded" activities...