Word: leftishness
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...Garfield) Bromley Oxnam is a chunky, solid, strong-voiced prelate of 57. He looks and dresses like a prosperous businessman, but his leftish social views got him listed in Elizabeth Dilling's The Red Network. Among the assets he brings to any enterprise are his organizing and administrative ability. He applies both to his personal life so formidably that there is never a paper left on his desk or a question left unanswered in any committee over which he presides. Says Theologian Niebuhr: "He gets through a meeting faster and better than anyone I know...
...broadminded; you are leftish; he is a Communist...
...biggest brasshats-the equal of Mayer, Zanuck and Warner-with an income of around $380,000 a year. Last week Schary was out of a job. Since May 11, when Howard Hughes stepped in as RKO's controlling stockholder, Hollywood has been speculating over Schary's future. Leftish Schary is proudest of having masterminded such films as the lowbudget, propaganda-heavy Crossfire; conservative Hughes favors blatantly sexy, splashily costly movies like his own Outlaw. They had never met, but neither man was particularly attracted by what he knew about the other...
...swampy sandlot. At Harvard he had stood at the head of his class, remained as an instructor after graduating. During his 43 years at the University of Chicago, Lovett joined everything he was invited to join except the Socialist Party. He was a leader of such starry-eyed, leftish setups as the League for Industrial Democracy and the League of American Writers. For one year he was editor of the Dial, a famed fortnightly magazine whose staff included Philosopher John Dewey and Economist Thorstein Veblen; later he spent eight years as an active editor of the New Republic when that...
Rising costs had another pocket-sized monthly breathing hard. Starting with the July issue, Reader's Scope (circ. around 300,000), published by leftish Leverett Gleason, will come out every other month...