Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Texas' biggest political news of the week was. however, the race to succeed Mr. Allred as Governor. In a field of twelve for the Democratic nomination (virtual election), leading contestants until last month were Attorney General William ("Bill") McCraw and redheaded Railroad Commissioner Ernest Othmer ("Red Colonel") Thompson. Then into the race stepped Wilbert Lee O'Daniel, of Fort Worth, a radio character well-known to Texans, for years a flour salesman, later a miller...
...strip of northwest Indian territory lying against the border of Afghanistan. Its fierce tribes have never submitted to British rule. There last week, as they have been doing for two years, grousing British Army officers and sweating troops scrambled over unfriendly mountains on the trail of an elusive, red-bearded, turbaned firebrand, Mirza Ali Khan, the Fakir...
...Governor of New York . . . because I could get no assistance from Washington, I was compelled to create State deficits-to put the State treasury into the 'red'-in order to feed the destitute and give work to the unemployed...
...cinema stars belong to a social class of their own which has no equivalent in England. This does not inconvenience Gracie Fields who prefers to live in a style more in keeping with her humble origins. In London, her most ostentatious possession is a red brick house on Finchley Road. She sold her Rolls-Royce because "it was too posh for me,'' rides in a Buick...
Quintet (Sat. 12 noon, NBC-Red) for Piano and Strings by Armande de Polignac, Comtesse de Chabannes, played by the Brenner Piano Quintet...