Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...force after the contest begins." ¶ In Congress, rabid Isolationist Hamilton Fish stunned the House by voicing a solemn hope for non-partisan harmony in the crisis, a hope that "at least for the time being no effort will be made to criticize the Administration. . . ." ¶The American Red Cross ordered 50 more air-conditioned ambulances, 100 auxiliary hospital trucks, ten field hospitals, quantities of surgical instruments; drove for another...
...Field Marshal Hermann Goring, and Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels attended the premiere of Cavour, a play on which Benito Mussolini, onetime journalist, collaborated. Italy's dictator promised his royalty for the first evening, and half of all his subsequent royalties, to the German Red Cross. Field Marshal Goring arrived late, which made his presence, in resplendent white uniform, the more conspicuous...
They gave the invaders red-hot hospitality with bullets...
Nach Paris. At 5 a.m. next morning a drowsy-voiced night operator summoned the press to a 6 o'clock conference. Not until 8:25 did Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop come in, pale and red-eyed from a sleepless night. His voice husky from strain, he rasped, "England and France at last dropped the mask. The attack on the Ruhr Valley was definitely planned." Then followed the usual tirade of accusation and denouncement. Belgium and The Netherlands had "plotted" against the Reich, had "fostered a German revolution," etc., etc. Long before he had finished, journalists knew that Germany...
...toward social problems." But more important in his opinion are the responsibilities of government administrators. Here "the scope of political action must be clearly defined." Detailed control of business, in his opinion, requires great bureaucracies, which in return require a dictator with "power to break through the coils of red tape if the machine is to function...