Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face beet-red, Old Etonian Eden snapped: "Honorable members are making cheap gibes not appropriate here...
Trustees of the People. During this scathing arraignment, the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin had turned as red as Captain Eden, but when he rose to reply the Prime Minister was white with controlled fury. "People may say we are acting from cowardice," he growled. "We, as trustees of the people, ought to remember that if there be war in this country-I mean nearer than the Mediterranean-they will pay for it on the first night with their lives! . . . The first blow may come on the day that Sanctions are applied against an aggressor...
...benefactions.* When in 1930 he established a $10,000,000 fund to aid British charities he called it the "Pilgrim Trust." Best of all he likes to scatter his largesse in out-of-the-way places. He has given $500,000 to California's Save-the-Red-woods League, $2,500 to Mrs. Stanley Baldwin to buy anesthetics for maternity hospitals. He once persuaded Great Britain to run a smelly motor highway around Grantchester because that village had been the home of Poet Rupert Brooke. He has built two hospitals, Columbia University's $7,500,000 Medical Centre...
...Cardinals. Of this secret consistory, convoked a month ago, the Pope asked ratification of his choice of the two monsignori as new Princes of the Church. When assent was silently and swiftly given, Vatican functionaries entered the anteroom, informed the cardinals-elect that the Holy Father would bestow red hats upon them at a public consistory later in the week in St. Peter...
Along the creaky main corridor of the old red-brick building of the Army Medical Library in Washington last week strode the librarian, Major Edgar Erskine Hume, a proud and happy man. In his hand he carried a green clothbound book fresh from the Government Printing Office. Nodding happily to library workers, doctors and military men whom he passed, Major Hume, a medium-tall Kentuckian, pushed through the swinging shutter of his office door, put hat and coat in a wardrobe whose dried panels rattled, sat down at the solid oak desk which all preceding librarians of the greatest medical...