Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been rumored that Red-baiting Congressman Tom Blanton of Texas has a secretary whose name is Marx. Could this rumor be verified...
...last week Georgians were agreed that the Talmadge-Russell contest had turned into their hottest political fight since Joe Brown and Hoke Smith chased each other over the red clay hills 32 years...
...down the State, by radio and at big, riproaring rallies and barbecues the candidates have poured abuse on each other, whipped up passions and prejudices, kept the State in a frenzy of excitement. Farmers wearing red suspenders, the Talmadge trademark, turned out by hundreds for the Governor's barbecues of free pork, lamb, beef, chicken and "corn likker." Aside from the major matter of personalities, the chief issue was the New Deal, of which young Senator Russell is a stanch supporter...
Outside his State, Gene Talmadge is widely regarded as a scraggle-haired, red-gallused, cigar-smoking demagog who, while bawling at the New Deal for being "un-American," has ruled Georgia at the bayonet points of his militia. When the Legislature refused to fulfill his campaign promise of cheap automobile licenses, he created them by executive fiat, booted out his Motor Vehicle Commissioner for refusing to sell them. When the head of the potent State Highway Board refused to dismiss five of his engineers, Talmadge sent militia to seize the Board's funds, declared martial law, ousted the Board...
...envoys. On the understanding that Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff had promised President Roosevelt that Russia would buy great quantities of U. S. goods in return for recognition, Ambassador Bullitt made plans for a $1,200,000 Embassy, which Congress on the same understanding had authorized, awaited the Red trade orders which would cement the U. S. and the U. S. S. R. in bonds of commercial friendship...