Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From this would seemingly follow the logical absurdity that Germany is more Red than Russia, nay most Red among the nations...
...setting out with his huge casualness "to have a look at Russia." Of course the news of his impending visit had elicited from Soviet Commissar of Education Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky a formal invitation and an expression of enthusiasm that the Second Confucius was coming. Comrade Lunacharsky is a Red, but he knows his Deweys. A dynamo of energy, he not only directs the Commissariat (Ministry) for Education, but writes plays, is President of the Moscow Society of Dramatic Writers & Composers, and acts as supervising editor of three Moscow publications: Novy Mir (The New World), Krestyanka (The Peasant Woman), and Iskusstvo...
There, in an epigram, is almost the core of Dewey's concept of education: a concept about which he will soon be shrewdly questioned by Red Commissar Lunacharsky, guiding educator of the largest and perhaps least tutored nation on the globe...
...Moscow, they said, King Amanullah flatly refused to participate in a scheduled presentation of 49 combat planes to the Red Air Force, when he learned that the planes had been purchased from the so-called Reply To Chamberlain Fund...
Three months ago the runners started from Los Angeles. In front of them rode C. C. Pyle in a motor bungalow accompanied by his protege, Red Grange. Behind the bungalow came a broadcasting car which cost $1,000 a week to operate. Behind the broadcasting car, before much time had passed, came sheriffs on motorcycles. Soon the bungalow was attached for debts. At every town runners quit. Red Grange, barker of a side show which Pyle set up in a tent wherever he stopped failed to make money. Pyle gave the runners $1.50 a day for food, put cots...