Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...economic queen grandly surveyed the chasm for a moment, looked at the sign that hung over it; then barked an order down the yawning abyss. We watched, fascinated. In a minute a lily-white parcel, wrapped in tissue and tied with a red ribbon, sailed out into the air. She circled under it, like a fairy quarterback, nabbed it, and, darting into her car, vanished in the rtaffic...
Captain Gray, although he lagged far behind in scoring, led the Crimson passing attack which pressed consistently organized play in late rallies of the Bruins Next to White, Red Lowman and McGowan led in tallies for the home team while Burbank and Clements out-pointed their teammates in the Brown five...
...Douglas Aircraft Co. on the third day of a sit-down were indicted for "forcible entry and occupancy" but refused to retreat. Police and sheriff's deputies, 350 strong, surrounded the plant, brought up machine guns, ominously set up a dressing station for expected casualties with a Red Cross flag prominently displayed. The sit-downers retaliated by arming themselves with wrenches, rolling airplanes to the windows so that their propellers could be used to blow tear gas out of the plant. They distributed drums of paint with which they threatened to fire the building. Undeterred, police called...
...church in St. Paul's Cathedral ("The Parish Church of the British Empire") go the King & Queen on May 24, humbly wearing "plain clothes." Next evening they dine at red brick No. 10 Downing Street with the Prime Minister & Mrs. Stanley Baldwin ("The King Makers"). The King was born Dec. 14, 1895, but the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin has ordered "Celebration of the King's Birthday on June 9," * and this may be said to close the Coronation Season. The London Season continues for swanksters until the Cowes Regatta which ends...
Congress is learning how to oppose the President and to beat him. It saw that a campaign of frothy cloquence and red-herrings could persuade only two states, and has turned to the constructive strategy. Instead of parking in the middle of the President's road, to be mangled by the popular fervor he arouses when given a solid, reactionary opposition, the legislators are attacking his flank. The Sommers Bill granting full retirement pay to Supreme Court justices is an attempt to shunt the worthy aims of the administration into acceptable paths...