Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...less definite, but enthusiasts bustled around Manhattan trying to lease Madison Square Garden or the Polo Grounds, the Yankee Stadium, Cooper Union or Carnegie Hall. All were refused. Police Commissioner Joseph A. Warren of New York refused a parade permit. The enthusiasts said they would display the urns, strew Red carnations, sing the Internationale in Union Square, permitted...
...Red Graft? Gardner Jackson and the Defense Committee had another grievance. Last January, U. S. Communists reported to Moscow that they had raised $500,000 for "the Sacco-Vanzetti relief work." Last week the Defense Committee revealed that it had received only $300 from Communist sources. Where did the rest go? The Defense Committee had some big bills...
Then a note of warning shot into his speech, like a drop of hot red ink into a bucket of cold clear water. Rasped he: "We are the same old revolutionaries, and if our enemies think we have grown sleepy and lazy through administration, they will get a rude shock...
...ponies over a period of years. In 1909 the "Big Four," Whitney, Monty and Larry Waterbury, and Milburn, sailed for England and drubbed Britain, in two straight games. Since then there have been five challenges, and four of them have been won by the U. S. Just before the red shadow of war darkened all sport, the English four took the title back to England where it remained until Milburn, Hitchcock, Webb and Louis Stoddard regained it in 1921. International polo is not played every year. It involves too much preparation, too much expense. England challenged...
...these Bostonians get a dead man out of the chair! . . . Elliott . . . started to put on the electrode and now I observed that Vanzetti was getting nervous. . . . There was a sickening stench of scorched flesh in the abattoir. Vanzetti's neck was slowly but surely turning to a blood red and the jugular veins were doubling up in knots...