Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attorney and five of its Socialist city councilmen, turned down eight out of twelve other Socialist candidates for the council, defeated Socialist candidates for city treasurer and city controller, rejected a Socialist proposal for municipal ownership of the local electric company. Milwaukee further demonstrated the extent of its current Red scare (TIME, April 6) when it returnedSocialist Mayor Daniel Webster Hoan to City Hall for his seventh term by 111,167 votes to 97,124 for his Non-Partisan opponent, Sheriff Joseph John Shinners-a majority only one-third as large as that non-Socialist city gave its famed Marxist...
...Tokyo four wild-eyed young men, members of one of Japan's patriotic societies (Kenkokukai) invaded the offices of the Soviet Tass News Agency, attempted to bluff Red reporters into leaving the country. Around the Soviet embassy Japanese police set a close guard, arrested Japanese interpreters, Japanese language teachers and other Japanese employes on suspicion of espionage, opened parcels. Announced Moscow's Izvestia: "The Japanese attitude toward the embassy of a foreign state is unprecedented in civilized countries...
...Communists started the confusion off by publishing a pamphlet patriotically bound in red, white & blue, in which the gold franc was vigorously defended. Their daily Humanite blazed away in daily editorials at "the nefarious attack on the franc," in much the same manner as arch-republican newspapers in the U. S. used to denounce President Roosevelt's dollar devaluation...
...Radical-Socialists were united in a "Front Populaire" under the leadership of lean Socialist Leon Blum, who some believe may be next Premier of France. A paradox himself, cultivated Socialist Blum is a teetotaler whose constituency is at Narbonne, in the Department of Aude, centre of the cheap red wine district where the vineyard workers are their own best customers. Fortunately for Socialist Blum's delicate digestion, his re-election was assured when French Royalists nearly severed his carotid artery nine weeks ago. Free wine flowed in Narbonne last week but Candidate Blum let voters drink alone...
...Arthur Bannister's trial for murder in Dorchester was enlivened by tall, red-coated Royal Mounted Police Sergeant Bedford Peters' fainting in the witness box, as he examined the late Phillip Lake's gold teeth. Arthur was summarily convicted of murder...