Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moscow the Red Army newsorgan Red Star published the text of leaflets given to Russian soldiers before they were started out for Poland, assuring them that the Generals and officers of the Polish Army had fled and containing appeals from the Polish populace for "liberation." In London, the Daily Telegraph & Morning Post reported that famed Karl Radek, who was the No. 1 Soviet publicist up to 1937 when he got ten years in jail for plotting with Nazis, has actually been "busy in Moscow since last March organizing Polish Bolsheviks for the very situation which has now developed." Reports from...
...tilted transatlantic shipping from confusion to chaos. Foreigners off to the wars could still obtain sailing permits from the U. S. State Department (providing they owed no income tax), but U. S. citizens who wanted to get to Europe had to unravel cat's-cradles of red tape. First requirement : a revalidated passport, good for six months at the most. These Secretary of State Hull extended only after probing the applicant's business abroad, deciding whether it was "essential." Those approved were mostly newsmen, international bigwigs, Government agents...
...city life with its socks down: lean cats scavenging in a snowy back yard, a dust storm on Fifth Avenue, scrubwomen in a library, girls on a roof drying their hair, men lined up at a bar. Less liked are the strange, bright-colored nudes, hatched and crosshatched in red, green, black, with which he has stubbornly experimented for the past ten years...
...Millman went to Mexico, spent his time with Diego Rivera learning mural design and technique. But at St. Louis neither he nor Siporin will use Rivera's jolting colors and jampacked composition. Their frescoes are in the standard historical vein, grey and red their predominant colors. Contemporary, unlike their murals, are their canvases now on show at the New York and San Francisco World Fairs. But, says Eddie Millman: "In murals alone can art reach the large masses of people. . . . Easel paintings are too personal, too limited in appeal. . . . Painting, to be really functional, must be taken from small...
...First Trust & Savings Bank (assets: $16,331,000), tall, easy, white-haired James S. (for Smellie) MacDonnell, now 62, long ago found a way to kick his bank into the public eye. In 1917, as cashier, he won local fame by writing persuasive ads for the Liberty Loan and Red Cross drives. Since then, as president, he has sporadically taken advertising space in the Pasadena Post and Star News (morning and evening twins of conservative Pasadena Publisher Charles Henry Prisk). To write his copy, Banker MacDonnell retires to his handsome office and there composes his editorials on public affairs...