Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Democratic leaders first learned of their chief's decision. What turned out to be the first Democratic rally of the campaign was arranged at the most expensive radio hour without a cent of cost to the Democratic National Committee, which is still $400,000 in the red...
...Last week holidaying Swedish newshawks were routed out of their homes by telephone, called scurrying back to their offices. Within two hours extras were hawked on every corner, flags were being hauled to half-staff on public buildings, and Prince Carl of Sweden, president of the Swedish Red Cross, was hurrying back from his country place to preside over an emergency meeting. Police reserves hustled around to the Italian legation to guard it from angry crowds that kept telling each other varying versions of the same story...
Near Dolo on the Italian Somaliland border of southern Ethiopia, a Swedish Red Cross unit was operating with the tribesmen of energetic Ras Desta Demtu, the "good" son-in-law of Haile Selassie. Italian aviators knew they were there, for only that morning copies of // Messaggero of Rome reached Stockholm, containing a paragraph from Italian Somaliland saying that Italian aviators flying over the southern front had seen people on the ground near hospital tents waving Swedish flags to call attention to their position. Yet last week a squadron of Italian planes circled over the Ethiopian camp to which the Swedish...
Because the Swedish Government lies as close to socialism as any monarchy can, Sweden has opposed Fascist Italy at Geneva. Here was a juicy point for Swedish delegates to the League to make the most of. Prince Carl protested " in the name of the Swedish Red Cross." King Gustaf was "deeply shocked." Crowds shouted "Down with Mussolini!" Swedish radio stations canceled all holiday programs as a mark of mourning...
...latest biographer, admits that his book is far from being definitive. "To track down the facts," says he despairingly, "required the diligence not so much of a writer as of a detective." Zaharoff has not simply eluded publicity; he has barricaded his devious trail with piles of red herrings. Though Author-Detective Neumann found many & many a document missing or unobtainable, most witnesses untrustworthy or disingenuous, he has succeeded in piecing together the sinister tale of a completely irresponsible, destructive career, in showing that where there was so much international smoke there must have been some Greek fire. No coldly...