Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Philosopher-General Andrews succeeds Eliot Wadsworth, brilliant engineer and financier of private fortune, who left the firm of Stone & Webster for Red Cross Management in 1916, went thence to Secretary Mellon's service...
...Jones has lived in Texas since his youthful migration from Tennessee. He made millions in lumber, rose to bank and railroad directorships, took a big man's interest in politics, became international as a Red Cross man with H. P. Davison, became national as a Democratic angel. He was opposed to placing all the advertising through one agency. On money matters, he was a little "hard-boiled." But, at fitful intervals during October, he (or Chairman Clem Shaver, through James W. Gerard, Democratic National Treasurer) paid to Van Patten Inc. $50,000 because, according to the latter, various publishers were...
...Museum contains such interesting relics as Napoleon's* riding whip, a lock of his hair, the red ribbon of the Order worn by him the day of the Battle of Waterloo; the oriflammed mantle of the Ordre de Saint Esprit (Order of the Holy Ghost) worn by the Kings of France; the chain of the same Order worn by Louis...
While the thought of eliminating the squalor of living conditions among Indians is praiseworthy, it cannot be accomplished without also upsetting old religious rites, such as the sun dance, and the snake dance of the Zunis. Modern plumbing an hygienic living conditions, the goal of the Red Cross, cannot help breeding a sense of unreality when the snake dance is performed. The Indian civilization, such as it was must be supplanted entirely or not at all. The mind cannot retain the customs and religion of the past when the body is living so ardently in the present. The Indian himself...
...professional services rendered, brings in her parrot to he cured of some undetermined malady. Chubb thereupon conceives the brilliant stunt of pawning the parrot to buy breakfast for the three. No sooner suggested than acted upon, but, alas, for fond dreams of ham and eggs, a bewilderingly beautiful Red Cross nurse takes the money received to feed the starving Russians. The three hungry men grow desperate, but Chubb comes through with another "idea". All weddings mean a deluge of gifts and Doctor. Hampton has a small army of relatives whose contributions might feed the starving for months. Hence...