Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week the Largo Caballero Cabinet claimed to be "resuming the offensive on all fronts." With what they have been able to buy in France and have been sent by Russia, the Spanish Premier at Valencia and Spanish President Manuel Azaña at Barcelona got their Red militia going in drives on Talavera de la Reina, El Escorial and Toledo near Madrid and, on the north coast of Spain, started a drive toward Burgos which, since the sixth day of the war, has been the Capital of the Whites who acknowledge Francisco Franco as their President and Generalissimo...
...Red, Hot and Blue-Howard Lindsay's and Russel Grouse's third-rate puns. Cole Porter's second-rate music, Bob Hope's, Ethel Merman's and Jimmy Durante's first-rate performance...
...Red Peppers," in which an indignant, third-rate English variety team gives a provincial theatre a ribald Saturday night...
Stocky, sandy-haired, affable Howard Wilkinson went to Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pa.), Boston University, the Episcopal. Theological School in' Cambridge. He did Y.M.C.A. and Red Cross work during the War, is still an enthusiastic Reserve Corps Major, much in demand as a speaker in Red Cross drives. He likes to recall that some of the U. S. officers for whom he held services considered him "the toughest-looking member of the unit." Holding pastorates in New Haven and West Roxbury, Mass., Dr. Wilkinson was in Boston during its famed police strike of 1919, became a volunteer traffic...
...youngest full-fledged symphony conductor in the U. S. is chubby, red-headed James Kelley Guthrie, 22. Last week he mounted the conductor's stand and, before 5,000 people in the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium, guided the new Hollywood Grand Opera Association through its first presentation, Aïda. Except for the moment when four terrified white horses seemed ready to jump into the orchestra pit, the opera proceeded without a hitch and made San Francisco's grizzled Conductor Alfred Hertz exclaim: "He showed a mastery of musical forces quite unusual at his early...