Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biography of Mr. William Randolph Hearst by Airs. Fremont Older. It denounces the other current biographies of this great American as stink-bombs. They are petty attempts of persons in the pay of Moscow to discredit the person who has done most to help rid the country of the red menace, to save the country's honor, to deliver the suffering Cubans from the yoke of Spain, to make the United States safe for democracy, to keep 'America for the Americans...
...Extermination of the red menace in colleges, prep schools and kindergartens. Under this clause, one of the most important of all, the League is waging an active fight to drive out Communism from America. In this section fall Americanism slogans and stories and drives for teachers' oath laws. The teachers' oath law is a step in such legislation; when the League ends, everyone will have to take an oath to the Constitution before every meal...
...varying sizes, shapes, shades and significance are the medals with which nations honor their military heroes, living and dead. No. 1 Medal of the British Empire is the bronze, red-ribboned Victoria Cross, bearing the Royal Crest and the inscription FOR VALOUR. Since the close of the Crimean War in 1856, 1,155 persons have won it "for some signal act of valour or devotion . . . in the presence of the enemy." During the World War, when other medals were being passed out with feverish generosity, the V.C. went to only 633 fighters, proudly maintained its high prestige...
...ornate, yellow-brick house at No. 801 Buchanan St., with a dried-up goldfish pool in the front yard, Alf M. Landon crawled out of bed at 7 o'clock one morning last week. Swiftly the Governor of Kansas pulled on an old blue suit, soft white shirt, red and blue tie, black shoes. At 7:20 he was down for a breakfast of orange juice, fruit, scrambled eggs and kidneys, toast and coffee with his two small children-John Cobb, 2, and Nancy Josephine, 3. Mrs. Landon, whose digestion has suffered lately from all the excitement around...
Meat-eating Eskimos suffer from nosebleed because their blood is over-rich in red cells. Dr. Rabinowitch thinks the overproduction of red cells is due to the abundance of copper in seafood. Eskimos do not suffer from diabetes, he believes, because long ago those who might have been susceptible died before they could breed susceptible children. He found only one case of what might have been cancer, several cases of arteriosclerosis among Eskimos living at the white settlements. No such cases were located among the most northerly, isolated Eskimos...