Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...busy season for Washington valets, ladies' maids, society reporters and the President of the U. S. opened last week. With the Cabinet Dinner and the Diplomatic Reception, President & Mrs. Roosevelt started their annual round of state parties in the White House. Red-haired young Mrs. Ickes in vivid green satin shot with silver was a cynosure at the Cabinet affair, her official debut. The diplomats' party glittered with the uniforms of chargés d'affaires but only ten out of 19 Ambassadors were present: Mexico's Francisco Castillo Najera was absent in Lima; German Hans...
...York labor mediators suggested that Mergenthaler continue to pay 95% of present wages, put 5% in escrow until September 1939. To this Messrs. Mackey and Mitchell last week consented. At fiscal year's end, an impartial arbitrator will go over the Mergenthaler books. If Mergenthaler is in the red, the company takes the amount of its deficit out of the $100,000 nut, gives back the rest to the workers. If the deficit is $100,000 or more the workers of course get nothing; if there is a profit, they...
...average of 2.48 and a batting average of .313, Owner Emil Sick of the Seattle club put a $100,000 price tag on this rookie pitcher, fresh from high school. Although no club owner was willing to pay that amount in cash, the Tigers -outbidding the rich Yankees, Red Sox, Pirates and Cubs last week-gave almost the equivalent of $100,000 for the baseball find of the year...
...other guests jumbo type has been used, and for presbyopic Impresario Daniel Frohman the script was hand-printed, in letters several inches tall. More difficult was color-blind Manhattanite Robert Reuschle, who wanted his lines typed in "red," the color he could see best. (The script had to be typed in green, which he saw as red.) Worst of the lot was 119-year-old Flora Williams, a onetime slave. Mrs. Williams had never learned to read, could memorize nothing, had to ad lib her interview with Commentator Gabriel Heatter. Even under the strain of broadcasting she could not keep...
...crook of his elbow. Mutual contentment. The mad, festive roar of those thousands at dances is now a thing apart; far below the city appears calmly dignified. From the west a tiny train slithers into the station behind its headlight, and the green eye of a signal turns to red. Then, carrying over the show-silence, comes the faint but insistent tinkle of a church bell which tolls and tolls. The Eve has become...