Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many as 500,000 Spaniards have perished since the Spanish War began. By far the greater number were noncombatants who died at the hands of rival firing squads or were killed in the battle for Madrid," declared Rear Admiral Gary Travers Grayson, chairman of the American National Red Cross, back in Manhattan from an International Red Cross meeting in Paris...
Week after taking Governor Alf Landon on a Florida hunting & fishing trip, Guide Walter ("Red") Welner was lost in the woods two days. Speeding through Missouri, the train bearing Governor Landon home to Topeka cut a 1,600-gal. oil truck in two, badly burned the driver...
...Sons Co., for harboring stolen styles (TIME, March 23). Members of the Guild refused to fill orders from White's or Filene's. Promptly Filene's charged the Guild with conspiracy in restraint of trade, took the matter to court with the backing of other "red-carded" stores and the potent National Retail Dry Goods Association. Confirmed last week were the findings of Special Master Ripley Dana that...
...counsel to the U. S. bigwigs in the Dawes and Young Plan negotiations led to his appointment as vice president and director of the Bank for International Settlements ("The World Bank") at Basle, Switzerland in 1930. Three years later, at 43, he became president, continued his habits of cutting red tape. In 1935 Mr. Fraser retired from B. I. S. to take the vice-presidency of Manhattan's rich, conservative First National Bank ("The Baker Bank"), his first job as a commercial banker. Last week, First National's chairman, George Fisher Baker, son and namesake of the founder...
...pleased the beavers, although the water soaked the floor and moisture spoiled the food. Meanwhile, since the beaver is a loquacious beast, with a range of sounds almost as great as that of humans, a constant chattering, wailing and outright crying accompanied their gnawing and splashing, until the imperturbable red man was almost a nervous wreck. Once he even pulled Rawhide roughly by the tail, but he was shamed immediately after when one of the kittens rushed to Rawhide, uttering whimpering sounds, clutched him tightly and "made a little scene about...