Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Five generals, headed by General Baron Alexander Ernst von Falkenhausen, World War veteran, one-time German military attache at Tokyo, were in China last week. Distinctly possible was it that General von Falkenhausen may soon find himself sitting side by side at a staff conference with a group of Red Army Communists...
...though Scholar Sap has been professor of economics at Louvain University, Politician Sap is not a man to forget a grudge. Independently wealthy, Gustave Sap has been frequently named the financial backer of Rexist Leon Degrelle, Belgian Fascist leader who was soundly trounced at the polls by black-haired, red-mustached Premier Paul van Zeeland five months ago (TIME. April...
...Polezhayev's ship comes in when Lenin gets to the helm. He sees his seven-year magnum opus on plant physiology put through the government-controlled press ahead of propaganda leaflets. When he lectures Baltic sailors on the color red, "the foundation of the life of plants," he gets a big hand and a valuable loaf of bread, is elected their deputy to the Petrograd Soviet. Lenin himself calls him on the phone, says he is proud of him. Old Polezhayev's heart begins to run down; the doctor warns him to rest, stay at home. But Polezhayev...
...procedure in such cases is for SEC to hand over its material to the Department of Justice, but Lawyers Tancer and Schwimmer felt that delay might tempt Mr. Low into Ontario where he would be unable to clarify the stock sale for SEC examiners.* Accordingly last week they had red-faced Distiller Low arrested by a U. S. marshal, and announced that they would seek an indictment at the close of the investigation...
After profits had fallen from plus $1,277,000 in 1929 to minus $203,000 in 1932, Depression might have conquered the company forever but for the clever maneuvers of young George Strohmeyer. This tall, red-haired young man with a fondness for dogs and fishing joined Childs in 1927 as an accountant, and was assistant treasurer when the shake-up came. Transferred to real-estate supervision, he cut rent costs $500,000 by abandoning bad property, persuading landlords that it would be less unprofitable to reduce Childs rent than to force the company into bankruptcy. In 1933 George Strohmeyer...