Word: leftishness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Born. To Clifford Odets, 38, brilliant leftish playwright of the '30s (Waiting for Lefty), who cashed in on his talents as a Hollywood writer-director (None But the Lonely Heart), and Bette Grayson Odets, 26, his second wife: their (and his) first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Weight...
...Senate's coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats, only half successful in its fight against Henry Wallace, has been pointing up for a fuller victory. If they could not keep Wallace out of the Commerce Department, there was one thing they could do: keep leftish, New Dealer Aubrey Willis Williams from becoming Rural Electrification Administrator...
...Senate then turned to another Presidential appointee: long-jawed, leftish Aubrey Willis Williams, ex-head of the National Youth Administration. After a three weeks' examination of his qualifications for the office of Rural Electrification Administrator, the Senate Agriculture Committee voted 12-to-8 last week to reject him. The Senate was in a mood to do the same. Urged to ask Franklin Roosevelt to withdraw his nomination before it came to a vote, Williams stuck out his chin and retorted, "Hell...
...promised: 1) re-establishment of democratic institutions, 2) free elections. He added grimly: "I hope the rebellion will end with the rebels laying down their arms . . . trusting my word that I will not allow a dictatorship. ... If not, I will naturally be compelled to clear the situation by force." Leftish Foreign Minister Sofianopoulos 'backed his leader; ELAS was a minority, must lay down its arms...
Then the conference proceeded to elect to the Party's powerful executive committee: Dr. Edith Summerskill, Labor's ablest, fightingest woman M.P.; leftish M.P. Aneurin Bevan, Churchill's bitterest Labor critic in Parliament...