Word: leftishness
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...little known but lively survivor of the once powerful U.S. Socialist press this week celebrated its 21st anniversary. Manhattan's weekly tabloid New Leader is a mouthpiece for many shades of liberal and leftish opinion, except Trotskyists, Stalinists and Norman Thomas Socialists. It is against the Stalin dictatorship and what the New Leader calls the "Kremlin set" of U.S. liberals...
...niece of Chicago's mighty America Super-Firster, Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, last week told what she thought of her uncle and his Chicago Tribune. At the same time the leftish monthly Common Sense (cir. 12,500) of which she is publisher and mainstay (estimated annual losses: $25,000), published an article by Milton Mayer. Wrote he: "If the people of Chicago hated the Tribune, they would break the [reading] habit with little difficulty. . . . They know [it] distorts . . . news, omits some more...
...operate OWI's vertiginous New York office. Their job: to tell the truth, but not the whole truth about the U.S. to its friends and enemies, and to neutrals abroad. (News of U.S. strikes, for example, is not sent.) Critics have accused the Manhattan psychological warriors of being leftish, of being faction-ridden...
...House Committee had already done with an identical bill-the Senators hastily slapped it back on a subcommittee desk, and now called for a full-dress investigation. O'Mahoney's fight was bolstered by sensational feature stories in the Chicago Sun and New York City's leftish PM telling in great detail about slush funds, special pressures on Congressmen's home-town law firms, and a flood of almost identical letters to legislators...
...soon as installment No. 1 appeared, the Archbishop found himself raked fore & aft by the U.S. Protestant, liberal and leftish press for his praise of Franco. Wrote Archbishop Spellman in Collier's: "My impressions of him are in accordance with his reputation as a very sincere, serious and intelligent man. . . . Whatever general criticism has been made of General Franco (and it has been considerable) I cannot doubt that he is a man loyal to his God, devoted to his country's welfare, and definitely willing to sacrifice himself in any capacity and to any extent for Spain...