Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soviet newsorgans last week followed their reports of the "purge"' conducted in the Soviet Far Eastern Army by War Commissar Kliment ("Klim") Voroshilov with significant references to the previously unheard of "First Independent Far Eastern Red Army" and "Second Independent Far Eastern Red Army...
Before Marshal Bluecher "disappeared" his authority was extended to unify under him the secret police of the Soviet Far East as well as its Red Army. To the All-Union secret police Chief Nikolai Yezhov, Commissar for Home Affairs in Moscow, this was a partial curtailment of authority, and likely was it that potent Yezhov helped to "break" Bluecher...
...return for continued control over WPA and generous Federal patronage, Boss Hague would really turn out his Hudson County vote for Mr. Ely. Boss Hague's answer was to show Secretary Woodring a mammoth, slam-bang political jamboree for Candidate Ely in the Jersey City armory, complete with red-fire, bands, entertainers and an overflow crowd that brought the cheering total to at least 100,000. Franklin Roosevelt's emissary thereupon inserted into his prepared speech a hearty Roosevelt endorsement of Candidate Ely, predicted his election and added: "I know that the President will be thrilled when...
Eastwood, a lean, soldierly Yorkshireman of 53, who was elected last March after experience as a Liverpool bobby, promised to hand out "legitimate" news at daily conferences. Only other officers authorized to deal with newspapermen were Chief James E. Dew, whose bright red handlebar mustache has been nationally publicized on a Vox Pop radio program, and acting Inspector Sherman Lyons...
...years of riding flying shingles, he knows better than to depend on his racing earnings. In 1935, when he won the Albany marathon (worth $250) and spreadeagled the field in almost every other regatta, he wound up with the coveted U. S. 2 but he was $600 in the red...