Word: leftish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rome spinsterish Kingsley Martin, Unitarian minister and editor of Britain's leftish New Statesman and Nation, talked about world Communism with a Catholic dignitary who saw a silver lining. Martin quoted the churchman: "If the leaders of Soviet Russia had been clever enough to respect individual rights and religious liberty in the countries they had occupied, Russia would today be by much the greatest power in the world. Perhaps we must thank le ban Dieu"-and he made a prayerful sign-"that He has not made them so intelligent...
...Idaho. Leftish Senator Glen ("Cowboy") Taylor is out beating the brush for squat Attorney-Rancher George Donart. Thus Republican Henry Dworshak is running against two tough campaigners. Four-term Congressman Dworshak has a fair chance in an uphill race...
...Angeles, some 1,100 "associates" of the leftish Nation gathered in expectation of hearing a stirring rallying cry to the Wallace banner by Will Rogers Jr., their Senate hopeful. What they heard was an anemic speech in which Democrat Rogers sidestepped any mention of Wallace, Jimmy Byrnes or Harry Truman. Many a hot Hollywood liberal went away angered...
...steering the nation along the thorny path of recovery might fall upon the Catholic party, which favored the return of King Leopold III from exile. In pious, conservative Flanders, mottoes like "Wij eischen onzen Koning terug" (We want our King back) suddenly appeared on house walls. But in leftish, French-speaking Wallonia, an all-Catholic government might cause strikes and riots...
...liberal and leftish press was in similar full cry. Wrote the New Republic's knowing Washington Correspondent "T.R.B.": Draft men who strike, in peacetime, into the armed services! Is this Russia or Germany?" Screamed New York City's PM: "A dictator's life-and-death power over American labor." Speaker after speaker-Senator Pepper, Harold Ickes, Henry Morgenthau - cried that Franklin Roosevelt would never have done what Harry Truman did. They were right. True, Franklin Roosevelt, only three years before, had asked Congress for exactly the same power.* And twice-in 1944 and again in 1945-Franklin...