Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...born June 2, 1886, the day that one of New York State's greatest Democratic politicians, Grover Cleveland, was married to Frances Folsom (now Mrs. Preston) in the White House. Grover got his start in politics when he was 30 by working for the election of John F. ("Red Mike") Hylan, Tammany's candidate to succeed the previous Fusion mayor, John Purroy Mitchell. Soon Whalen blossomed out as commissioner of plant & structures and holder of various other city offices. The one which made his reputation was secretary of Mayor Hylan's committee to welcome home coming troops...
...Hale) for control of the new industry. When the railroads boost freight rates to force the farmers to sell out their oil lands, Peter and his friends start a pipe line to the refinery. The railroad's strong-arm gang, headed by Peter's loud-mouthed neighbor, Red Scanlon (Charles Bickford), tries to break the line, buy out the land it crosses. The conflict reaches its peak in a magnificent free-for-all when, racing to put down the last three miles of line before their contract expires, the oilmen farmers are attacked by Red's gang...
Famed as the most harmonious commission in Washington, the five commissioners lean heavily on such loyal staff members as Chief Counsel William Thomas Kelley, a hulking, red-faced lawyer who booms and beats the table and has been with FTC from the start, more than 20 years ago; his chief assistant, Armand De Birney, onetime ace investigator for the Veteran's Bureau; Economists Francis Walker, jovial Willis Jerome Ballinger and Corwin D. Edwards. Assistant to the chairman and the FTC's pressagent is Joe Baker, tall, slim, leathery, onetime...
...solved the difficulty of selling their wares by stirring the patriotic fervor of church congregations to the point where they put up the cash for guns to arm the settlers. Smith raised a white war party of his own, outfitted them with breechclouts, knives, tomahawks; prescribed blackened faces, red-topped skulls, plenty of red war paint. Drill consisted in teaching his 50 men straight Indian tactics. Then nothing more was seen or heard of them for the rest of the summer. But no Indians were seen Or heard in the Conococheague Valley either. The Black Boys were beating the Indians...
...Born in Maryland in 1834 he arrived in Chicago at 21, got a job as bookkeeper in a wholesale dry goods house. When the Civil War broke out in 1861 Levi, then 26, was no patriotic fool. While the blood of other men his age ran red from Bull Run to Appomattox he grew so rich selling goods to the Government that in 1865 he was able to plunk $130,000 alongside Marshall Field's $160,000 to buy partnerships in the dry-goods business that became Field, Leiter & Co. and eventually Marshall Field...