Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rage. "Oh, Pennsylvania, what a shame!" he cried as he belabored operators and executives, including "the great Herbert Hoover," whom he blamed for not denouncing an inhuman situation;* President Coolidge, to whom he imputed "presidential yellowness;" and Secretary Mellon whose interests were accused of "hiring private assassins." The Red Cross was also taken to task for doing nothing to relieve the miners' suffering...
...reported that girls who work in Kresge Stores took a frank and unwholesome delight in the misfortunes of their "boss;" that it pleased them to know that the man whose name was painted with spotless gold upon a thousand red facades, whose fame for righteousness and reformation was as large as his fame for wealth, was after all no better than themselves; mayhap, not even as good. A year and a half ago, Kresge wrote to Senator James Couzens, asking him for a $1,000 contribution to a girl's home. With a larger check, the senator sent Kresge...
...Thomas "Red" Moran is young, anemic and a hardboiled yegg. A year ago, he murdered two policemen. When they tried him for this crime, he sneered at the judge. Said "Red" Moran: "I want to burn in the chair." The judge said he could have his wish...
Still unregenerate, still unafraid of death, "Red" Moran was brought from the Sing Sing death house last week for a new trial. They took him to a jail wherein one of his enemies, William Reid, had been locked up for a minor offense. Hearing that "Red" Moran was coming, William Reid quietly took a spoon and ground its handle until it was as sharp and keen as a knife...
Late in the afternoon the two prisoners met in a corridor. It was the exercise period. The guards were a few steps away. The other prisoners stood in a huddled circle. William Reid moved suddenly. "Red" Moran felt a sharp jagged blade tearing through clothes, tearing through his flesh...