Word: leftishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Melishes of Brooklyn were back in the news. Ever since the ouster two years ago of Rector John Howard Melish and his far-leftish son and assistant, William Howard, Brooklyn's Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity has been without a full-time rector. Meanwhile, nine anti-Melish vestrymen (whose petition to Long Island Bishop James Pernette De Wolfe led to the ouster) have been replaced in parish elections. Last week, by a vote of 119 to 11, the congregation handed the new vestrymen the name of the man they want for rector. The name: William Howard Melish. Further...
...college president, and Reed is the last place that should have him. The MacNaughton administration is the marriage of a blustery, conservative Scot ("I'm a Republican with a move on") and a stiffly intellectual campus with a reputation for lively, even leftish,* political liberalism...
Died. Lieut. Colonel Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, 41, U.S.-trained (at Fort Leavenworth's Command & General Staff School) head of Venezuela's current military junta; by an assassin's bullet; in Caracas. Through the curious workings of Venezuelan politics, Chalbaud led the 1945 revolution which installed leftish Romulo Gallegos as President, three years later helped overthrow Gallegos, clamped army controls on the country, promised elections (but never got around to them), ruled precariously and without unified support even from the army...
This spring the Venezuelan government closed down leftish El National, the country's biggest newspaper, after a linotyper by purposeful accident described the ruling junta as "the three little pigs." But when even pro-junta El Universal (in its social notes) printed a blast at "tyrants," the junta allowed El National to resume publication. Circulation jumped 3,000 copies...
...Left-wing Laborites like ardent, outspoken Aneurin Bevan (see above) complained that Labor would have done better if it had fought a more militant, more frankly leftish campaign. There is no objective reason to believe this. Both major parties drove for the middle, squeezing the Liberals between them. In the doubting mood of the British electorate, these cautious tactics were probably sound for both sides...