Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pronouncement was the news that Mrs. Marjorie Post Close Hutton Davies, apparently confident that her newly-appointed husband would remain Ambassador to Russia for at least two years, was sending 2,000 pints of frozen cream to Moscow and 25 electric refrigerators to keep it in. The Red comrade's smartcrack betrayed gross ignorance of Mrs. Davies' corporate connections and of the capitalistic uses of publicity...
...Red were the faces of several proud Manhattan bankers last week when they were exposed in Federal Court not for evil but for folly. In Judge William Bondy's courtroom, Michael ("Mike") Pecoraro, 39, a confessed swindler with at least 19 aliases, received an 18-month penitentiary sentence for having obtained $15,563 in 19 different loans from the National City Bank and Manufacturers Trust Company on 19 pieces of real estate...
...Hamilton Fish of New York, present by proxies from Alaska and Puerto Rico, won himself no welcome by gloating: "I carried Roosevelt's own district for Landon and myself by 24,000- and that's more than the rest of you can say." Long famed as a Red-baiter, Congressman Fish has stepped out since Nov. 3 as a would-be liberalizer of the GOP. Last week his target was National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, who had called the Committee's first post election meeting to act on his offer to resign...
...capable, Republican hands of Dr. George Loring Tobey Jr., a fashionable and crackerjack Boston ear, nose & throat specialist. He also had a graver affliction, septic sore throat, and there was danger that the Streptococcus haemolyticus might get into his blood stream. Once there the germs might destroy the red cells in his blood. In such a situation, a rich and robust Harvard crewman is no safer from death than anybody else...
Since the Marsh Buggy frequently cruises on inland waterways, it is licensed as a Class I motorboat, has to carry red. white and green running lights, a mast, an anchor, bowsprit (which folds), life preservers, two sets of government pilot rules. Speed at sea is six knots, on dry land 35 m.p.h., on marsh 12 m.p.h. Since landmarks are scarce in Louisiana marshes and the grass often grows twelve feet tall, all steering is done by compass...