Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last session of Congress closed with a Republican filibuster which prevented the passage of the urgent deficiency bill, left the Government without sufficient funds for normal activities?let alone flood relief. Assuming that there are 500,000 refugees and that there is $10,000,000 (the Red Cross relief fund) to spend on them, money available for flood relief would be only $20 per victim. By calling a special session, the Government could get both the money for relief work and the authority to spend...
...With regard to funds, Mr. Hoover last week telegraphed President Coolidge: "The success of our appeal to the public makes it reasonably safe now to say definitely that the funds in hand and prospective will enable the Red Cross to do its work on an efficient basis...
...triumphal breezes billow the drooping banners of Belgium, where King Albert stands bareheaded, his children clinging to their mother's hand. Cardinal Mercier smiles forgiveness. Two Red Cross dogs pant patiently. The famed bicycle boy looks ready to ride again. In front of all the Belgians lie the broken fragments of Gothic masonry. Between Belgians and British, lilies at her feet, stands Nurse Edith Cavell with posthumous decorations on her flowing cape...
Hundreds of red-cheeked British women carried their "brollies" (umbrellas) around the golf links at Newcastle, in County Down, Ireland, last week. A few of them pursued small white balls over the humid turf, for the women's championship of Great Britain was in progress...
...intense idealist, Romain Rolland retired from gay Paris to austere seclusion when his early marriage ended disastrously. He compiled biographies of famous men, a history of opera, novels, plays, screeds on pacifism. In 1914 he appeared in Geneva to work for the Red Cross, to enrage "La Patrie" by excoriating "La Guerre" in open letters to other pacifists. Still, at 61, a flayer of warriors, he includes a savage portrait of "Tiger" Clemenceau in Mother...