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Word: reds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt toiled late aboard the U. S. S. Tuscaloosa as it carved the midnight waves to Red Bank, N. J. last week. Fog and finicky fish had spoiled his vacation cruise to Newfoundland. Now another European convulsion had ended it a day early. Franklin Roosevelt sat up late working on an idea of his own: a peace plea to King Vittorio Emmanuele III of Italy, who was trout fishing in the Alps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Off-Base | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...money, the certain crashing raid by foreign security holders on the "thin" market of the New York Stock Exchange. Hanes, a positive, bluff, solid man, oddly inconsistent with the cold background of his Treasury office-icy-eyed portraits of former Secretaries, ancient shiny red-plush drapes, a cool white-marble mantel-arrived every morning last week at 7 a.m. (noon in London) to telephone his boss, Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. in Finland, Sweden, Norway; to telephone the men in London who watch the English end of the tripartite monetary agreement. Mr. Hanes had $2,000,000,000 worth of stabilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CABINET: Perfect Crisis | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...runs Senior Class elections and Senior Album elections. Of much more interest to Freshmen is the Council's financial guarantee of all Freshman extra-curricular activities, such as dances and the Freshman Red Book (annual yearbook). Besides these, it contributes to the support of the Freshman Smoker, the class get-together and fun-fest in the spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Represents The Student Body | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

...spend much of the time in the nude. In Chicago she has ordered a is-ft. canvas roof enclosure, on the Normandie a private sundeck. Said she: "It [sun bathing] has been wonderful for my health. My only difficulty [in Hollywood] has been with a nasty man in a red airplane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 28, 1939 | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

When Byron died of fever at Missolonghi, he left behind not only his great-lover reputation, but a plain, square, tin box with part of the evidence. In it were three dark red braids contributed by the "Maid of Athens," Theresa Macri and her sisters; a ringlet of Lady Oxford's, and several bundles of adoring letters from women who worshiped Byron, some of whom had never seen him. Most were wildly exclamatory, heavily underlined with pages blotted and blistered with tears. Byron did not answer all the letters. Even those he promised to destroy he kept, since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tin Box | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

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