Word: reds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Overnight, obscure Angelo Herndon became a front-page communist hero, his freedom a prime Red Cause. Released on $7,000 bail provided by the International Labor Defense, he marched up & down the land addressing Red rallies while I. L. D. lawyers fought his case through the courts. Twice Georgia's Supreme Court affirmed his sentence. The U. S. Supreme Court once sent the case back to Georgia because of improper presentation, then took jurisdiction...
...sixth time in his political career, rake-thin, hook-nosed Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, slated to succeed Stanley Baldwin as Prime Minister, stepped sedately up to the red dispatch box in the centre of the floor, fished a sheaf of papers from the Chancellor of the Exchequer's historic leather brief case, began to talk in his precise dry rasp...
...Premier Blum's own party discontent smoldered last week. The extreme Leftists were still kicking against his non-intervention in Spain, muttered angrily when Le Havre's Mayor Léon Mayer, during a meeting of the National Council of the Socialist Party, thundered: "We want no red flags, no Internationale, no clenched fists...
Boston Beriberi. In Boston Drs. Soma Weiss & Robert W. Wilkins found numerous "alcoholics, diabetics, food cranks and pregnant women" who suffered from "rapid heart rate, enlarged heart, shortness of breath, attacks of asthma." Their skins were usually warm and red. These people were "especially prone to develop broncho-pneumonia." They suffered, the Boston doctors decided with astonishment, from beriberi, a disease due to malnutrition. It is common in the Orient, especially in Java, had never before been recognized in the U. S. Cure: vitamin...
...words and gestures the districts of Hawaii, the torments of despised loves, the varieties of Hawaiian fish. Connoisseurs were interested in her seated dances wherein she swayed from the waist, wriggled sinuous arms, clicked a pair of pebbles called ili ili. Mikel Hanapi, dressed in a cape of red and yellow feathers which Huapala had made, and his Ilima Islanders supplied the music. Though they are now employed by a radio station in Hartford, they are natives who know well how to use gourds, coconut shells and rattles, as well as the steel guitar...