Word: leftishness
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...that was taken, however, seems to be that the conservative leaders of the Federation, almost ousted from power after a bitter battle over policy last summer, are trying to get rid of all the opposition radical elements in the Federation. New York has always been the center of the leftish side of the Federation...
Meet The People (produced by The Hollywood Theatre Alliance) is the Manhattan version of the leftish little revue put together in Los Angeles last year by young screen folk who tried to make a lark out of their distaste for Hollywood and Conditions Generally. It appeals in a genial, lively way to those who like social messages in syncopated time and aren't too particular about really instinctive talent and personality...
Married. Theodora Griffis, 25, daughter of Stanton Griffis, chairman of the executive committee of Paramount Pictures and of the board of Madison Square Garden Corp.; and leftish Lyricist John Patrick Digues Treville Latouche, 23, author of Ballad for Americans, collaborator on Ethel Waters' latest Broadway hit, Cabin...
...lumbering, leftish ex-newspaperman named Ferdinand Lundberg decided to give form to his favorite gripe: big, fat capitalists and their de facto control of our de jure Government. Under his microscope went 60 of the fattest with their families, their incomes, their politics, their philanthropies. He wrote an erudite bombshell of questionable accuracy titled America's 60 Families, watched his subjects squirm while Secretary Ickes and then Assistant Attorney General Jackson quoted it with gusto. Within less than a year the families were sprawled under more powerful microscopes as the Temporary National Economic Committee made a study of corporate...
Charges of leftish sabotage are made by André Maurois (Tragedy in France), famed author of Ariel and Byron. Like Hambro, Maurois insists that the "actual traitors . . . were not at all numerous. . . ." He gives four reasons for the debacle: 1) stupid industrial mobilization which permitted irreplaceable skilled workers to be drafted, so that Renault (tanks and trucks) was reduced from 30,000 workers to some 7,000; 2) engineers and financiers thought World War II was World War I, built factories which could not turn out essential weapons until 1941 or '42; 3) strategy was planned...