Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fast-gathering students were mindful of two things. Their eating houses were closed up and Jim was in trouble. So they forced the merchants to open up again, sized up the visitors and forthwith picked up a half-dozen and carried them to the shallow, convenient, cold Red Cedar. Downtown strikers heard and came fast but students came faster. More than eight strikers went in-around 20, I believe, for I saw and counted ten in at once...
...summary issued afterward ran to nine typewritten pages of fulminations against "the Bolshevist incendiaries of Valencia" and praise for the attitude of Benito Mussolini "which absolutely corresponds with that of Germany!" Even the newsorgan closest to mild von Neurath screamed in Berlin: "The only way to cope with the Red pirates is to weaken their military position...
...Russians who have rendered such supreme services to the Soviet Government as to win its highest decorations, the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Star, received their beribboned medals from the Soviet Central Executive Committee last week. What had these heroes done? Who were they? As to nine of the ten, Moscow correspondents could find out absolutely nothing, not even where they live or what may be their jobs. The only hero definitely spotted was Leonid Mikhailovich Zakovsky, and everyone in Russia knows that little more than two years ago the Secret Police of Leningrad were...
...Premier, and the Mayor of Bukhara were ousted from their jobs last week. The Premier's brother had meanwhile committed suicide. Over in White Russia, where the President killed himself fortnight ago, it was Railway Commissar Nikolai Vladimirsky who committed suicide last week. A further shake-up in Red Army circles, following the execution of Marshal Tukhachevsky and seven generals...
...Nearly every mind that might have disputed with Stalin for leadership has been destroyed by execution, exile or imprisonment. If Lenin were to return to life in this Red State that he founded he would see few familiar faces. . . . The happiest people here now are those in middling jobs. It is only obscure people who feel safe. That is true in every field, including the Communist Party ranks. . . . This city's aspect is not different from ordinary times and no more troops than usual are in evidence...