Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other witness-of-the-week was Thomas R. (for nothing) Amlie, the Red rover from Wisconsin named by Franklin Roosevelt for the Interstate Commerce Commission, chiefly to provoke an airing of that sombre body (TIME, Feb. 6). Lumbering, loquacious Mr. Amlie conducted his self-defense before a Senate subcommittee with heavy, self-centred humor. He said he had always "hoped to make good in some big way," and now he had done so-"in the field of incompetency." Not since the appointment of Louis Dembitz Brandeis to the Supreme Court, said he, had there been such opposition as there...
Call Conant "Red...
...Tufts, Radcliffe, Wellesley, and Smith were all communists was made by Henry J. Sullivan, philosopher, who said he had been "liquidated" by Harvard's President. Sullivan had asked for retention of the oath law on the grounds that it was an important barrier against the spread of "red" propaganda...
...youth Louis Brandeis forced the passage of the social insurance laws through the Massachusetts legislature while his enemies branded him a dangerous radical. Although his dislike of the "red menace" doctrine during the war impaired his chances of appointment to the Supreme Court, he nevertheless courageously regarded the drive as a menace to civil liberties. And once on the high bench, there never was any question of his compromising with what was hostile to his liberal tenets. Rarely did Louis Brandeis agree with his conservative colleagues; because of his celebrated minority opinions, vritten in league with his great contemporary Justice...
...red-headed Jim Lightbody who sparked the Crimson to victory over the Blue, as he overcame a five yard handicap, passed Eli anchorman Curtis, and went on to win by ten yards in the last lap of a 3.27.4 mile...