Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...embarrassing problem of what to do about the late AAA (see p. 18). Once during the week he came face to face with a far more embarrassing situation: six Justices of the Supreme Court in person. Standing with Mrs. Roosevelt before a wall of potted palms in the Red Room, the President held out his hand and a gleam of special pleasure came into his eye as Mr. Chief Justice Hughes and his Lady appeared at the official White House reception for the Judiciary. The same gleam of personal pleasure glowed again for Mr. Justice Van Devanter, for Mr. Justice...
...little rains," not due until next month, made them believe that Allah, Jehovah and their assorted pagan gods were sending the 1936 Rainy Season ahead of time to save Ethiopia. Italy's motor transport was immobilized in many places by the "little rains," wheels spinning impotently in sticky red mud. Sodden and soaked Italian bombing planes could not get off the ground. Only light Italian ships were able to fly in pursuit of non-existent Ethiopian planes or to scout for Ethiopians invisible beneath the mist...
...Miser able s Ruggles of Red...
Died. John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan, 67, two-term Mayor of New York City (1918-25); of a heart attack; in Queens. A farm boy from upstate New York, he left home at 19, worked as a common laborer before he studied law. Boosted from a city magistrate's insignificance by Tammany and Hearst in their effort to defeat Reformist John Purroy Mitchel, he won the mayoralty election in 1917, fought with his party on transit policy. Finally repudiated by Tammany, which preferred James J. Walker's lighter touch, Hylan ran against Walker and lost in the primaries...
...removed from the political whirlgig that had red-headed Governor Chandler cruising the streets for votes in a sound truck with a red-combed rooster on the radiator, is Professor Lloyd Arnold of the University of Illinois, in a state neighbor to Kentucky. With a colleague, Dr. J. A. Vauchulis, in the division of bacteriology, department of health, Dr. Arnold has perfected a new skin disinfectant for surgical use. The new solution is much cheaper than any disinfectant known today and more efficient than any other. Eminent in medicine, Dr. Arnold received his M.A. at Texas Christian...