Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Felipe Urzua, onetime President of the Chilean Supreme Court. Another is Senor Rafael Luis Gumucio, Vice President of the Chilean Conservative party, and onetime President of the Chilean Chamber of Deputies. Still another is Senor Enrique Caballero, so "Red" that Chilean Capitalists have elected him President of the Association of Employers of Chile...
...indisputable that these men are "Conservatives" and "Capitalists"-not "Reds." Their arrest was as scandalous as though President Coolidge should send soldiers to seize Chief Justice Taft and deport him as a Communist. The explanation, as usual, is that Dictator Carlos Ibanez is again finding his despotism over Chile threatened and is getting rid of his enemies under a plausible excuse. Among those arrested who might by a wild stretch of the imagination he called "Red" was Senor Luis Humberto Matis, "The Chilean Gompers," Secretary of the Chilean Federation of Labor...
There was danger. The "Red" Nationalist ship must run a doubtful gauntlet of anti-Nationalist Chinese and "White Russian" troops at Pukow before she could reach the upper Yangtze and the Nationalist Capital* Hankow. As Pukow was reached and the usual river patrol boat full of Chinese soldiers put off from the shore, Mme. Borodin and her three couriers steeled themselves to weasel out of many a question...
...Andes, was purchased recently by a Fascist. He dared not publish in the usual way a book by so prominent an anti-Fascist as myself. But neither did he wish to break my contract and pay me heavy damages. Therefore my book appeared last week with a bright red label stuck on the cover, reading: 'With pain at our heart we publish, in sheer respect for our contract, a new and most amusing book by that anti-Fascist swine- Blasco Ibanez.' This stratagem boosted the sale to 'best seller' figures...
...prattle assorted mysticisms garnered from better established sects; to work the mountaineers into a frenzy that will persuade them to donate money for the building of a church; then to skip the hills and return to the city bootleggers, with the church fund. Little did they reck that Red Belwyn (Margaret Lawrence), beautiful crookess of the gang, would discover LOVE through the burly person of Devil Ace Gilson (Louis Bennison), head of the Southern Gentlemen's Association of Moonshiners. But she does. And the evildoers drink wood alcohol, thereby losing forever their sight of God's true Heaven...