Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Soviet (parliament) last week put aside for the first time its traditional red banners and red bunting, convened in the onetime Throne Room of the Kremlin Palace, now freshly done over in pure white...
...Embassy at Peking, Captain Carlson returned to Hankow after three and a half months' "tour" as a military observer of the "conquered" provinces of Shansi, Hopei, Shantung and Suiyuan, where he traveled with organized Chinese guerrilla bands, including detachments of the Communist-trained Eighth Route Army, met Red Commander...
...East Aurora, N. Y. Inspired by William Morris, 19th-Century British arts-&-crafter, the Roycrofters printed and bound books, made elegant whatnots of pottery, wood, metal and hand-tooled leather. After the elder Hubbard's death, however, the community slipped financially, lately was $160,000 in the red. Last week, a religious organization called the Federation of Churches of Infinite Science, Inc. contracted to buy the Roycroft properties for $121,500 and take over most of the community's debts...
...Red-faced Tipster Toole is sponsored by the R. B. Clothing Co., brings as many as 1,500 people to an R. B. store when he makes a personal appearance. Although he works for a $75 weekly salary, he appeals to his horse-betting listeners to win him bonuses, declares on the air that he makes no money at the tracks, that a bet placed by Willie Winn poisons the horse. After he began broadcasting for R. B. last June, his sponsor promised him a 1938 Buick coach if in two weeks he could bring 500 new accounts into...
Arturo Toscanini (Thurs. 12:05 p.m., NBC-Blue) conducts a specially assembled Swiss orchestra at the first International Music Festival at Villa Triebschen, Lake of Lucerne, in Richard Wagner's A Siegfried Idyll, (12:30 p.m., NBC-Red) in Beethoven's Second Symphony...