Word: leftist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still needed a new co-chairman to stand beside Dr. Kingdon;. from Paris, Sculptor Jo Davidson had wired that he would take his beard out of politics. P.C.A, quickly found a new man: California's fast-talking Robert Kenny, ex-state attorney general, onetime unsuccessful candidate for governor, leftist Democratic opponent of the state's Democratic right wing, and, of course, an eager supporter of Henry Wallace for President...
...Administration labor specialists and his close adviser, Clark Clifford. He had bought labor's case, lock, stock & barrel; on many points his vehement, sharply worded message to Congress (see col. 3) squared exactly with the analysis of Lee Pressman, the C.I.O.'s able counsel, a Communist-line leftist...
...Manhattan, after two years' planning and plowing through thousands of dollars of Marshall Field's and other men's money, Saturday Review of Literature Editor Norman Cousins last week pulled the sheet over his projected leftist Collier's-type magazine, to be known as USA. Costs were too high now, he said. He hoped to try again...
...things they value more highly than money. They must house and employ about 450,000 émigrés-more than one-tenth of Finland's population-from the territories the Finns gave up to Russia. How many stayed behind? The highest estimate I got was 40; a leftist told me, "Not even the Communists stayed." So Finland has ruthlessly had to requisition living space. Every person over ten years old is allowed one room (two children under ten count as one adult). Many houses and apartments have three times their pre-armistice dwellers. Farmland is being requisitioned even...
Some told how in waterfront cafés in New Orleans and Miami, in hotel rooms in Manhattan and Mexico, political exiles were plotting the overthrow of half a dozen governments. The purported plots crossed ideological lines; they were against rightist regimes in Nicaragua, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, against leftist governments in Cuba, Guatemala, Venezuela. At hand in the U.S. were stacks of surplus guns, and plenty of adventurers, unemployed fighter pilots, aerial gunners and combat infantrymen who would fight at the drop of a dollar...