Word: kingdon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Camera-shy Albert Einstein was surrounded (from left to far left) by guests: grinning Editor Henry Agard Wallace, whose "courage and devotion" got Einstein's bravo; grinning Columnist Frank Kingdon, who got Wallace's endorsement for Senator from New Jersey; and grinning Singer Paul Robeson, who seconded Kingdon's nomination...
P.C.A. had lived in a foggy world since it was formed last December by merging Dr. Frank Kingdon's National Citizens Political Action Committee and bearded Sculptor Jo Davidson's Independent Citizens' Committee of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions (TIME, Jan. 6). P.C.A. had refused to exclude Communists, had never had too clear a program...
Having decided this, they still needed a new co-chairman to stand beside Dr. Kingdon;. from Paris, Sculptor Jo Davidson had wired that he would take his beard out of politics. P.C.A, quickly found a new man: California's fast-talking Robert Kenny, ex-state attorney general, onetime unsuccessful candidate for governor, leftist Democratic opponent of the state's Democratic right wing, and, of course, an eager supporter of Henry Wallace for President...
...Left-wing Commentators Frank Kingdon and Lisa Sergio (Mussolini's onetime...
From the pooling of resentments and initials came I.C.P.A. - Independent Citizens for Political Action. But the last two words, said westerners, had left a bad odor in voters' nostrils. So the 300 delegates reconsidered, settled on "Progressive Citizens of America," with Kingdon and Davidson as cochairmen. From Henry Wallace, who had yet to make a go of it as an independent, the amalgamated left got its keynote: "To prevent the Republican Congress and the laissez-faire big businessmen from leading us down the high road of boom, bust...