Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first of Franklin Roosevelt's major "Purge" primaries, on a note seemingly far removed from national issues. But by his "white supremacy" speeches Senator Smith reminded Southern Democrats of Franklin Roosevelt's fondness for Northern Negroes, his tacit approval of the Anti-Lynching bill. And the red shirts worn that night were in celebration of another repulse of the carpetbaggers. Instead of being purged...
...Young Communists, citizens of Pedobanya of the River Nemiljana started beating up Jews and attacking their homes. Moscow dispatched a commission of inquiry which reported that in the Ukraine there is "organized and fairly widespread" antiSemitism. In Kiev, the Soviet Ukrainian Capital, anti-Jewish riots were suppressed by Red Army troops...
Chinese-speaking Christian missionary doctors are among the few Western observers in really close touch with China's people, and in Manhattan arrived last week Dr. Walter H. Judd. fresh from work in Japanese-conquered territory, and Dr. Robert McClure who has been Director of the International Red Cross in Central China. They agreed that Japan "does not have the ghost of a chance to win the war," since what they have seen convinces them that the Japanese Army of Occupation, sniped at and harassed day & night by Chinese guerrillas, is "slowly bleeding to death." As an example...
Outside the Palace in the tidy, central square, The Dam, thousands of broadfaced Dutchmen, big-bosomed matrons and holiday-garbed children, faces scrubbed red as Edam cheeses, milled about shouting the famed cheer for the House of Orange: "Orange Boven" ("Orange Up!"). Reason for the "cheers was that their beloved Queen last week observed two anniversaries: her 58th birthday and the completion of her 40th year on the throne. Technically. Wilhelmina, Europe's longest-reigning sovereign,* became Queen 48 years ago on the death of her father, dissolute King Willem Ill, but Queen Mother Emma served as Regent until...
...eyes of Mexicans, their popular President had just been figuratively flashed a green light by Washington to go ahead with his seizure of foreign properties in Mexico without compensation. Every Mexican remembers the red light which President Woodrow Wilson had flashed on April 21, 1914 from the fighting top of the U. S. S. Arkansas. This signal started the bombardment of Veracruz by ships of U. S. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels and within a few months unacceptable President Huerta was forced to resign...