Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Furthermore, it makes all donations, on behalf of undergraduates, to local charities in Cambridge and Boston, and to such national organizations as the Red Cross. It gives roughly three thousand dollars to Phillips Brooks House fund. It provides for a number of scholarships for deserving men who are unable to meet a term bill. Thus one purpose of the Student Council pledge system of contributions is to centralize the charitable work of Harvard undergraduates, to aid the worthwhile causes, and to relive students from undesirable solicitation throughout the year...
...matter of fact Leary is getting worried, since his chances look so promising. "I've found out all these politicians are members of every kind of club," he said, "so I've announced that I am not and never will be a member of the Elks, the Eagles, the Red-Jackets, or the Fat Men's Club. Now I'm sure to get licked...
Best-known emblem of U. S. shipping around the world is a white dollar sign mounted on red-banded stacks. Last week, leaking badly at the seams, its brightwork tarnished after decades of shining renown, the Dollar Line signed away by its crew of heirs, assignees and moneylenders, was to be taken over by the U. S. Maritime Commission...
Captain Dollar died in 1932 and his son, R. (for Robert) Stanley, fat, red, fiftyish, took over. Trained in the Dollar lumber camps, R. Stanley had a hard time figuring out the financial maze his father had managed so shrewdly. He got help from Herbert and Mortimer Fleishhacker and their Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco. Straightway, the Dollar maze got mazier. Criss-crossed family corporations were set up, existing companies expanded. Soon the Dollar Line owed Anglo California some $3,000,000; and of the Dollar stock, the Fleishhackers owned 109,000 shares, the Dollars...
...voices steadily increased, so did shouts of "1401!" Puzzled and amused by this chant. Mr. Loeser suddenly noticed that I he was surrounded. Someone jostled him. His hat was knocked off. Next thing he knew he was in the street, straightening his rumpled clothes, looking up into the red face of a bobby...