Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Correspondent Karl H. von Wiegand, who appears to enjoy risking his life on everything from the Graf Zeppelin to Ethiopia (TIME, Jan. 27). Some 40 miles from crass and modern Madrid is mellow and historic old Toledo, and out to it went Hearst's von Wiegand escorted by Red Militia. Wrote he afterwards: "A militiaman with a .32 calibre, nickelplated revolver in his hand stood at my side in a narrow and barricaded street only 180 yards from the Alcazar [fortress of Toledo]...From the battered, smoke-begrimed windows of the magnificent fortress the intermittent bursts of rifle...
...absolute neutrality (TIME, Aug. 17). Benito Mussolini declared that Italy could adhere to it only if all powers signatory to it would bind themselves not only to refuse "State aid" to Spain but to prevent "private aid" as well from reaching Madrid. In a rage at this, some 30 Red and Pink Deputies and Senators of France announced that they had each privately contributed 50 francs ($3.30) to aid the Spanish Government, appealed for as many more private contributions as they could get and defied Socialist Premier Blum to do anything about it. With numerous German and Italian planes already...
...have taken both France and Spain by ballot and are trying in a dozen countries for more sweeping victories. Britons knew what to think last week when, although there has been no battle in Madrid, 733 political opponents of the Government were revealed to have been killed by the Red militia and the tobacco, oil and other important Spanish industries were turned over by the Government "to the workers...
...found a surplus of $4,792,000. But the nonparticipating end of the business showed a whopping deficit of $22,350,000. Main reason for the deficiency was that the personal accident & health department had been losing money for years, was more than $23,000,000 in the red. Main reasons for the accident department's showing were low premiums and high monthly benefits in its noncancelable disability policies, under which a man incapacitated for work must be paid so much per month as long as he is in that condition...
...game was played at night, announced by a German who did not understand it. When it was over, a Nazi baseball expert described it: "Baseball began its successful career in the countries surrounding the Pacific Ocean. Both teams appeared with nine players. The team with red stockings attacked first...