Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made with a Forrest City salvage dealer that he would speedily remove the metal from the scene of the accident and that he would dispose of it for junk, not souvenirs. . . . The small amount realized from the lump of melted metal was given as a donation to the American Red Cross...
When he was a youngster bumming around the coal fields of the West a generation ago, big, red-headed John Llewellyn Lewis once had the job of driving a mine mule named Spanish Pete. Pete was a mankiller. Rounding a tunnel curve one day, the creature slewed around, reared, raised its hoofs, prepared to bash Lewis against the mine wall. Young John had just enough time to spike Pete between the eyes with the point of the sprag of his coal car. To avoid imminent fine and dismissal, the young mine worker rubbed clay over the prostrate Pete...
...cheery good-by to the ragged and bleeding band at Valley Forge while he rode forth to dine in sumptuous luxury with smug and sanctimonious Tories in nearby Philadelphia. . . . You approved NRA, you approved farm relief, you urged Federal spending and public works, you urged Congress to cut red tape and confer power on the Executive, you urged autocratic power for the President. . . . The New Deal was the platform of the Happy Warrior. The policies of the Liberty League have become the platform of the Unhappy Warrior...
...Somaliland front at Wadara the reconnaissance has found and taken the entire Swedish field hospital encampment . . . mounted on five trucks with Red Cross flags and insignia. The cars also contained 27 cases of munitions...
...saloon, dining saloon, galley with an electric refrigerator. The forecastle will quarter some 20 Chinese seamen. Subscribing Shipmates subject to seasickness may pay the extra cost of having their bunks hung on gimbals like a binnacle. There will be twin Diesel engines to propel the craft through the windless Red Sea, and a short-wave radio to broadcast its progress to the waiting world...