Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roswell Magill, was made Under Secretary of the Treasury. Studies were promptly started. And then in a message to Congress last April President Roosevelt declared that there was "an immediate need for a careful survey of the present tax structure." One result of that call to action was the red-herring investigation of incorporated yachts during the battle over the Supreme Court and the subsequent plugging of a few yawning loopholes...
...small room in Cairo's Koubbeh Palace waited King Farouk. in the black & gold uniform of a field marshal. Opposite His Majesty, in the morning coat and red tarboosh of Egyptian officialdom, was the bride's father, Judge Youssef Zulficar Pasha, an old friend of Egypt's royal family and vice president of the Mixed Court of Appeals at Alexandria. Religious sanction was given by the presence of Egypt's supreme religious authority, Sheik Mustafa El Maraghi, of Ahzar University, and three other sheiks, all in purple robes and white turbans. Waiting patiently in an anteroom...
Some weeks ago Big Red Planner Mezhlauk quietly disappeared and so did his brother Ivan, a member of the Higher School Commission. Another Big Red who disappeared during 1937 was the Russian Commissar for Finance Grigoriy Grinko. Not one of the 1,143 deputies of the Supreme Soviet who elected the new Council asked any questions last week about Mezhlauk, about Grinko, about any of the other Big Reds who continue to disappear, put away by Stalin's Secret Political Police. They also asked no questions about the Government's policies or plans...
Similar cases were cited by dozens. This washing in the press of dirty Communist linen strongly suggested that, even though the Dictator may continue his own purge of Red bigwigs, public sentiment has made it advisable to put a stop to local imitators. Under Stalin's instructions, a vigorous roundup of small-fry purgers began. Jumping in to lend the Dictator their prestige, justices of the Soviet Supreme Court exhorted the lower courts and the Secret Political Police to join forces in a nationwide campaign to "Purge the Purgers...
...lecture tour (TIME, Dec. 27), gangling Nobel Prizewinner Sinclair ("Red") Lewis told newsmen that nothing in the world as he finds it annoys him. Asked one reporter: "Does the poverty in the world annoy you, Mr. Lewis?" Annoyed, Author Lewis jumped up, flared: "Don't you try to make a damn fool out of me, young man. God did that already, and you don't need to try to help...