Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Land to the Peasants!" Most effective slogan used by Lenin & Trotsky to rally rural Russians to their Red standard in 1917 was "Land to the Peasants...
Last week, readers were amazed to see the Saturday Review minus its familiar red, white & blue cover, still more astonished to read an editorial notice: "Today the Saturday Review resumes its old position as the leading Conservative weekly." Leaving no doubt about their repudiation of their former angel, the editors further announced: "The dictatorship is over and we return to constitutional government...
...Behind Red Lights (by Samuel Shipman & Beth Brown; Jack Curtis, producer) is a melodrama based on the mechanics of organized harlotry as illumined in the Manhattan trial of a squint-eyed vice tycoon named Charles ("Lucky'') Lucania (TIME, June 15). One character definitely not drawn from the Lucania dossier is a noble-hearted ''madam" who sheds a steady stream of sweetness & light, tries to dissuade new girls from becoming prostitutes before permitting them to do so, refuses to be coerced by the vice ring and connives with the authorities to smash it. Near...
...copper's sister non-ferrous metal, tin, was placed on virtually a 1929 production basis by the tin cartel (TIME, Jan. 18). Last week, with export copper selling as high as 12.75? per lb., the international copper cartel called off production quotas to keep the price of the red metal from soaring higher and to discourage reopening of low-grade mines...
More typical was bespectacled Association President Albert K. Mitchell, who grazes 500,000 acres for Red River Cattle Co. near Albert, N. M. Both he and the town were named for an uncle. One of the ten top U. S. registered Hereford breeders. President Mitchell was chiefly concerned about tariffs and quotas, for particularly painful to cattlemen are Secretary of State Hull's reciprocal trade pacts, which tend to lower the fences against foreign meat. Cried President Mitchell: "South America is the only fly in the cowman's ointment. Otherwise he is riding high and handsome. This Argentine...