Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Into the pavilion swarmed some 5,000 invited guests, for whose benefit its interior had been deodorized, its gallery strung with U. S. and Wisconsin flags and with banners bearing the strange device of a cross within a circle, a new American shibboleth. Ushers were Wisconsin football players wearing red sweaters with huge white Ws. Originator, organizer and chief speaker at the meeting was Wisconsin's bespectacled 41-year-old Governor Philip Fox La Follette, whose supporters last spring ousted from the University's presidency Mr. Glenn Frank, the man who is now engaged in preparing...
...happens every May Day, Joseph Stalin publicly reviewed in Red Square this week a dazzling demonstration of Soviet armed might. In private, Moscow observers noted that scarcely one year has passed since the Dictator began the most spectacular purge that ever hit an army, navy, air force. Last week it was possible to reconstruct from numberless small items in the Russian official press a fairly accurate picture of the secret May-to-May military purge which is not over...
Typical is the case of S. K. Timoshenko, Second-Rank Red Army Commander (Major General). Last summer he was Assistant Commander at Kiev of the Ukraine Military District in western Russia, adjoining Poland. In the autumn he was appointed Commander in the Caucasus in Russia's south. By winter he was shunted to Kharkov, the industrial centre of the Ukraine, and today he is back at Kiev, now as full Commander-four shifts in less than a year, and at each shift but one Timoshenko has replaced a Red Army officer who was "purged...
Meanwhile, since May 1937, according to accounts in the Soviet press, the example set by Stalin in arraigning as traitors to Russia her greatest military leaders has been followed by an epidemic of soldiers denouncing their officers before Red Army courts-martial, these made up of other officers afraid not to convict lest they in turn be denounced, no matter how flimsy the evidence or grudge. Firing squads have been crackling all over Russia at such a rate that even the official Red Army organ Krasnaia Zvezda ("Red Star") has expressed concern at the "great depletion of regimental, brigade...
...Freshman trackmen journey to Exeter today to meet the Red and Gray. Victory is expected for the Crimson. Captain Rolla Campbell will run his specialty, the half mile. Bob Partlow is expected to win the broad jump and the high jump...