Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fast-traveling column of whirling wind which not only devastates anything in its direct path but by its centrifugal force leaves a low pressure area in which air-filled buildings literally explode. Most serious that the valley has suffered in years, last week's tornadoes, according to Red Cross estimates, killed 20 people, injured 188, left 2,000 homeless, and were characteristically freakish...
...Lithuania, although if there had been a definite limit events showed that it was later extended. Amid a world-wide eruption of ill-considered headlines it was suggested that Soviet Russia might give Lithuania armed aid against Poland, but a glance at the geographical situation showed that the Red Army could not reach Lithuania without first invading Poland or Latvia. In less than 48 hours the Lithuanian Government, through their Minister at Tallin, Estonia, handed to the Polish Minister at Tallin a sheaf of promises to resume friendly relations and intercourse with Poland by rail, mail, telegraph...
...French Leftists, including some War veterans, staged a riot 4,000 strong along the Seine, shouting anti-Fascist slogans, and four Paris policemen were stabbed with knives. Soon afterward 3,000 leaders of Communist groups in all parts of France were summoned to Paris for a conference with French Red No. 1, Maurice Thorez. The 3,000 arrived shouting "Open the frontier to Spain!" and "Thorez in Power!" Orator Thorez instructed them to incite the French masses "against their enemies, both without and within...
Clustered miserably in the prisoner's dock day after day were four men who, according to the Crown, had been caught red-handed by Miss X. All were once-trusted employes at Woolwich, the chief British arsenal: Albert Williams, armament examiner; George Whomack, assistant foreman of the gun section; C. W. Munday, assistant chemist; and P. E. Glading, only a minor employe at Woolwich, but featured as an important Communist...
Among the gay first-rowers at last night's performance was Miss Ann Marsters, becomingly clad in black chiffon with a black velvet bow in her hair. She wore a corsage of red roses...