Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coincident with the military tests, which brought National Guardsmen and reservists to the colors, which provided for the temporary enrollment of Red Cross nurses and civilians everywhere (even in Paris 250 men registered for service), the captains of industry rallied around their desks for the national defense. It was a great game. In the Engineering Societies Building in Manhattan, Judge Elbert H. Gary, Chairman of the U. S. Steel Corporation, received a hypothetically frantic order for railway equipment...
...only point of the refunding procedure which seems to be involved in red tape is in securing credit and refunds for a 25% deduction on taxes "paid at source." To secure this deduction, one must massage the tax machinery...
...overshadowed by his meteoric gridiron career, but still he ranks as one of the greatest Crimson boxmen. He was the pitching mainstay of the 1914, 1915, and 1916 teams and also one of the leading batters. His greatest feat was a 1 to 0 shutout of the Boston Red Sox in an exhibition game in the spring of 1916 when the Red Sox were World's Champions...
...country. Evidence of much agitation among the workmen was seen in the increased activity of the Ogpu (secret police). The discovery of a committee to oppose the Government's grain-export policy was unearthed. This committee was engaged in exhorting the industrial workers, the railway men and the Red Army to thwart the Government, declaring that the latter was impervious to the dire distress of the hungry populace. One of its proclamations: "If the Government persists, let us respond with a general strike. Let us refuse to pay taxes. Let us defy the Ogpu's hireling bands...
...stained the planks red with his blood before they carried him below...