Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investigation of un-American activities Mr. Dies has brought principally a $25,000 appropriation, a willingness (common to Congressional ferrets) to hear what he believes, a succession of renegade leftists, ex-union officers and members turned talebearer, avowed spies, patriotic citizens bursting with information about the Reds. Mr. Dies also has taken testimony about U. S. Nazis and Fascists, has even accepted aspersions against such personages as Tom Girdler. But in the main he has stayed on the Red trail previously traversed by New York's Representative Hamilton Fish...
Neatest trick of the week was performed by British Author Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey, barred from the U. S. by Franklin Roosevelt's State Department for being a Communist (TIME, Oct. 24). Bailed out of Ellis Island on condition that he deliver no lectures. Red-stained Mr. Strachey nevertheless managed to throw a dubious kiss at Franklin Roosevelt: "My chief regret is that I cannot now express publicly my support for the New Deal and my detestation of Fascism and Nazism in all their forms...
...history of Free Speech in Jersey City by ruling, in favor of C.I.O. and the Civil Liberties Union, that Boss Frank Hague must let them move freely about, distribute circulars, display placards, but may still require permits for public addresses and control the composition of mass audiences. Red-hating Boss Hague promptly announced: "Our position is exactly the same...
Meanwhile, red-hot embers of Les Nouvelles Galeries settled down on the fuel storage tanks in the basement. Suddenly these exploded with a blast heard for miles, set fire to other hotels and buildings on famed La Cannebiere. This is the street of which all Marseille has boasted for generations on postcards sold to tourists: "Ah, if Paris only had a Cannebiere it would be a 'Little Marseille...
...over C in the International Code of Flag Signals. The N flag is blue-and-white checkered; the C has five horizontal stripes, the middle red, flanked by two whites, the outsides blue. Both are rectangular. The message, in any language: "In distress. Need prompt...