Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pondering over the combined Italian-German military might, crowds stood before bookstore windows and gazed at maps of Soviet Russia, commenting approvingly on the size of the great brown expanse. Brokers were calling the advance in stock prices the Stalin Boom. Movie audiences were applauding newsreels of the Red army...
...they are polishing their bicycles preparing for the 28th annual cycle tour next week; in Stockholm, where midnight concerts are about to begin and crowds are flocking to see Bette Davis in Dark Victory; in Rome, where they are laughing at a boy-meets-girl comedy called Two Dozen Red Roses and singing a tuneful song called It Was Folly; in Russia, where football squads are drilling for the summer season; in London, where the most popular song is Deep Purple. Over the crisis-worn continent last week the people were moving under cloudless skies; the wheat...
Russia has no strike troubles (workers who strike have a way of disappearing the same night), but the Russian peasant is the Kremlin's chronic headache. His food is needed to feed the proletariat, his sons are needed for the Red Army. Even collective farms have failed to turn the mulish muzhik into a village Bolshevik. Wily as any Communist, the peasants long ago wrung from the Kremlin permission to till personal plots on collective farms, sell their produce in the open market...
...District Attorney, which will substitute for Pepsodent's Bob Hope, program on NBC-Red this summer, is typical of the vulgate radio shows by Phillips H. Lord (Seth Parker, Gang Busters, We, the People). Racket situations are dramatized and a Dewey-style prosecuting attorney goes to work on the fictionized culprits...
...Yale line-up two of the most noteworthy players are Outfielder Eddie Collins Jr., son of the Baseball Immortal who helped bring fame to Connie Mack's pre-War Athletics, and Pitcher Joe Wood Jr., son of famed "Smoky Joe"* who won 34 games for the Red Sox in 1912. At Colgate another Immortal's son, Pitcher George Sisler Jr., has proved he is a chip...