Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...money for further probing into UnAmerican Activities. Mr. Dies promptly went shopping for investigators, ex-G-Men preferred. But Speaker Bankhead struck one last minute blow for the Leftists. To a vacancy on the Dies Committee he appointed California's earnest young Representative Jerry Voorhis, good friend of Red Rover Amlie and, since the departure of Texas' Maury Maverick,* leader of the Young Turks in the House. Son of a millionaire, Jerry Voorhis turned down a fat sum his father offered to set him up in business. Instead, after getting his $BK at Yale, he worked...
...waits on time and infirmity. On the best of terms with their Assistant Secretary, Leahy & Admirals prefer to remain that way by keeping him strictly ashore, well out of naval planning and operation. His awakening interest in such matters as the Navy's troublesome promotion system, its mountainous red tape, its broadening spheres in the Atlantic and Pacific, have caused hardly a ripple in the "Annapolis Club" of naval officialdom...
Marx's books and Marx states that sooner or later there will be a Red Government in every country in the world. I am trying to protect myself...
...mounting importance of Joe Strecker as a Reddish bug under the national microscope was further emphasized when, to defend him before the Supreme Court, up rose Lawyer Whitney North Seymour of the eminent Manhattan firm of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett. Mr. Seymour, a Republican libertarian, won freedom in 1937 for Red Angelo Herndon from Georgia's 71-year-old insurrection law. For Joe Strecker he argued that his case paralleled Herndon's, and that in view of the Communist Party's disclaimers, its members constitute no immediate menace such as the 1918-20 deportation law had in mind...
...protect himself financially against the U. S. going Red, Joe sold enough Armour & Co. 4% bonds to buy 2,200 rubles worth ($1,588) of U. S. S. R. bonds, paying (still) 7% gold...