Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Red." In justification of the cost of his ammunition the President wrote: "Let us unanimously recognize the fact that the Federal debt, whether it be twenty-five billions or forty billions, can only be paid if the nation obtains a vastly increased citizen income. I repeat that if this citizen income can be raised (from an estimated fifty-six billion this Year) to eighty billion dollars a year the National Government and the overwhelming majority of State and local governments will be 'out of the red.' " And the President added: "Business must help. I am sure business will...
Whenever U. S. citizens are asked to contribute to the Red Cross by whoever at the time happens to be U. S. President, the prestige of his great office has usually been enough to turn the trick. U. S. citizens have responded to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's appeal that they give the Red Cross $1,000,000 for the succor of the Chinese people by contributing to date some...
...reason for this apathetic response was that the President's appeal in January was soon blanketed by subsequent world headlines. Another reason was that the chairmanship of the Red Cross has been vacant since the death of Admiral Grayson. Last week President Roosevelt persuaded his grey and graceful Ambassador-at-Large, Norman Hezekiah Davis, to take the vacant post...
...Japanese Red Cross has saved charitable U. S. citizens large sums since the beginning of the war in China by answering in the negative a question by the American Red Cross as to whether it needed money. Japanese gratefully accepted $10,000,000 from the American Red Cross at the time of the Tokyo 'earthquake, but in their present emergency they feel able to stand on the feet of the Japanese Red Cross...
...Chinese Red Cross, ever since China was invaded, has been thankfully accepting from the American Red Cross sums which now total $370,000. Of this $100,000 was appropriated by the American Red Cross from its general fund before the Roosevelt appeal, and another $100,000 was added from the same source early this month. Private donations prior to the appeal amounted to about $50,000. Chairman Davis keeps hearing from U. S. friends of China that, whereas Japan got $10,000,000 after her earthquake, the American Red Cross in the last three decades has sent only about...