Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same time it was announced that the Council has given $75 additional to the Red Cross for Flood Relief. This constitutes an especial appropriation in addition to the $250 already given...
...operation of individuals, public utilities, professions, radio, press, industry, commerce, transportation, amusements, Red Cross, Salvation Army, other organizations, and not Mr. Dykstra. But you can't cooperate in chaos. Mr. Dykstra as City Manager knew all factors, all agencies, their place and capacities, and as such was properly made Disaster Administrator. He appointed a Central Disaster Committee and they, representative of all groups, functioning with City Hall, have seen that each group has had its place and each emergency has been met without overlapping, confusion or bombastic gestures...
...Some 30 years ago Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, disliking the red draperies planned for the East Room of the White House, put up gold ones instead. Mrs. Roosevelt last week revealed that the President asked the Commission of Fine Arts for permission to replace Mrs. Roosevelt's with a red damask set costing $4,000. Other proposed changes: a new piano to replace the gold piano in the East Room (its tone is failing); $10,000 worth of air conditioning equipment to cool individual rooms in the White House (complete air conditioning would cost some...
...rained yesterday; it is raining now and it will rain tomorrow. But it is a gentle rain that falls on Oxford, and the grass is always green and many flowers are still in bloom and the air is brisk and healthy and noses are cold and red. And so here I sit in my room (nearly the size of the Dunster Common Room) with only a small coal fire for heat. It is no wonder that I'm wrapped up in an automobile blanket and an umbrella over my left shoulder. No, there's not a leak...
This box was excavated by natives at Tell Abu-Maria, a village 20 miles west of Mosul. Another recent purchase is a collection of South-Arabian antiquities, including twelve short inscriptions on stone and small bas-reliefs on red sandstone...