Word: reds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...treasurer, coroner and register of wills. This meant scuttling an old party wheelhorse, Controller Frank J. Tiemann, who was up for re-election in November. Meade refused to give him the party blessing for the primary. In the process, Meade almost lost one of his strongest political allies, heavy, red-faced Sheriff Austin Meehan. "Frank's my pal," cried the sheriff. "He's in trouble and I'll go down with him." But Meade called in the city's 52 ward leaders; they voted overwhelmingly for the "new faces" and the sheriff finally swung reluctantly into...
Japan. Britain is more anxious for a peace treaty than the U.S., which dislikes the prospect of withdrawing occupation forces, and which cannot see how a satisfactory treaty can be drawn either with or without the concurrence of Red Russia and Red China...
...trial was held in the gaily decorated, red marble assembly hall of the metalworkers' union, in which Rajk a matter of months ago used to appear with Rakosi to deliver political speeches. Rajk had been in jail since his arrest in June, but he looked fit. Avidly, he piled self-accusation upon self-accusation...
...years, China's Ta Rung Pao (The Impartial) cherished its role as an independent newspaper, liked to think of itself as the New York Times of China. But last November, Editor Wang Yun-sheng, correctly gauging the strength of the red tide, left the main office at Shanghai and turned up in Communist-held Peiping to confess his sins. In 20 years with Ta Rung Pao, admitted Wang, he had failed: "Although [I tried] to run the paper as an independent one, in reality it has betrayed the interests of the people . . . There is no neutrality for a journalist...
...directs an Athens underground during the Nazi occupation; U.S. Airman Tommy McPhail, whose plane has been shot down over Greece and who wants to be gotten back to his base; royalists and Communists; patriots and plotters; Greek girls and English girls, and one calculating American number in a Red Cross uniform...