Word: leftishness
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...Crown Prince Umberto's spreading, magnificent home. The common man ran for cover; he did not want to be caught in the middle of a shooting scrape. Actually there was no shooting: it was just more protection for Umberto after a series of antimonarchy demonstrations by the hotheaded, leftish Republican Youth Movement...
...last week. Aiming to make conservative U.S. farmers less sot in their ways, he bought the dingy, drab, 105-year-old Southern Farmer, which circulates 325,000 copies every month through the home districts of many a conservative Southern congressman. As editor and publisher he promptly installed long, lean, leftish Aubrey Williams, whom the Southern senatorial conservatives helped vote down as Rural Electrification Administrator last spring...
Field has another, equally hush-hush, plan: to inject a bit of fresh, leftish air into rural weeklies. His partner in this project (incorporated as Cross Country Reports) is Banker-Economist James Paul Warburg, an early New Dealer, then a fervent anti (Hell Bent for Election) and finally, in 1944, a doorbell-ringer for Sidney Hillman's P.A.C. Field and Warburg's ambition is to set up as a rival to powerful Western Newspaper Union which sends boiler-plate material ("pretty reactionary") to U.S. weeklies. Says Field, grinning: "I don't think I'll make...
...lost on maneuvers. It was the dead of night when they tramped into the muddy, rainswept courtyard of what they thought was an abandoned English country house. But desolate Orchilly House turned out to be crammed to the eaves. The intruding sergeant was met by the politically leftish daughter of the house, Virginia, who had been running the place ever since she ran away from her dull and snobbish husband. In one of the bedrooms lay Virginia's once-beautiful mother-an invalid whose sickness no doctor could diagnose. Home on furlough was son Vaughan, an R.A.F. squadron leader...
Nobody was apt to think of leftish James George Patton, the big, hard-working president of the Farmers Union, as a director of a $300 million corporation. And the notion that Jim Patton would sit on the same board of directors with Montgomery Ward & Co.'s labor-baiting Sewell L. Avery was even more incongruous. But for a little while last week it looked as if these incongruities might come to pass...