Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ready were the traditional red stockings that every Roosevelt, child and grownup, hangs over the fireplace in the President's second-floor bedroom. On Christmas Eve, after the children have kissed "Grandpa" good night, the elder Roosevelts stuff the stockings. Into each toe goes a toothbrush, a nailfile, a gaily wrapped bar of soap-vestiges of a custom that Mrs. Roosevelt began, as a sugar-coated reminder of cleanliness, when her six-footer sons were little tads...
...soon after dawn as is seemly, the pajama-clad small fry whoop into "Grandpa's" bedroom, bounce on his bed, shout "Merry Christmas," and dive for the bulging red stockings hanging from the mantelpiece. After breakfast (smoked sausages and scrambled eggs) the President and the immediate family motor around old Lafayette Square to the grey granite St. Thomas Episcopal Church...
...beginning, in 1836, Atlanta was the spot of red clay where one Hardy Ivy had his cabin, and where an engineer named A. H. Brisbane chose to drive a stake. Because the stake marked the end of the new Western & Atlantic Railroad, the town-to-be was called Terminus. By 1843 Terminus had ten families and one more railroad, and Governor Wilson Lumpkin had a daughter named Martha. So Terminus became Marthasville, and Statesman John C. Calhoun in 1845 saw what was to come: "Such is the formation of the country between the Mississippi Valley and the Southern Atlantic coast...
...Fortnight ago, Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes watched with bright red face while Gridiron Club members portrayed him as Donald Duck, the frenzied squawker. Last week, "Honest Harold"* engaged General Hugh Johnson in debate in Newark, said: "We are both contesting for the post of Donald Duck of Public Affairs...
...Give us back peace!" Argentine Delegate Rodolfo Freyre, glowing with anti-Soviet hatred, was the spokesman for those who demanded that the Soviet Union be read out of the League. Swedish Delegate Bo Osten Unden moved that a telegram-virtually an ultimatum-be sent to Moscow asking that the Red Army be halted and that the Finnish-Russian dispute be mediated. Britain's Richard Austen Butler asked and got a time limit of 24 hours for the Soviet Union to reply...