Word: leftist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, after gibes by fellow Laborites that he was a "monarchist" who had sold out and "joined in building up the royal wedding ballyhoo," Driberg felt constrained to defend his besmirched leftist reputation by leaning over backward so far he reached almost from Buckingham Palace to Billingsgate. Said Driberg...
Since taking office last month as the only "nonpartisan" member of the new leftist government, 47-year-old Minister Wachholtz has pushed a policy that denies credit for all but industrial purposes. The left has stood by him because the poorer classes have been almost untouched, at least to start with, by his deflationary decrees. But middle-class shopkeepers, who need credit to stay in business, have been hard hit, and some real-estate speculators and stockmarket operators have lost heavily...
...Received some 2,000 guests in the gold and damask halls of the National Palace. ¶Got a ten-gallon Stetson and a cowboy shirt from a Texas delegation headed by Governor-elect Beauford Jester. ¶Received calls from leftist ex-President Cárdenas, rightist ex-President Abelardo Rodriguez and middle-of-the-road ex-President Camacho. ¶Made a big hit with newsmen by holding Mexico's first give& amp; -take presidential press conference, broke another Mexican precedent by starting it at the scheduled time. But he neatly parried all attempts to define his new regime...
...Russia was growing among American military and civilian officials. Many went so far as to adopt the idea, beloved of Japanese die-hard militarists, of Japan as an American Gibraltar against Rusia. At very least, the Soviets became suspect of designs on Japan; all communist, and indeed all leftist, activity in the country was seen as Russian-inspired, and Russian interest that paralleled our own began to look like espionage...
...find it easy to duck out of range by denying, as usual, that Communism motivated his policy. But the resolution, unanimously accepted by the convention, will be a weapon of sorts for right-wingers. The first quarry they expected to use it on: Reid Robinson, of the miners & smelters, leftist vice president of C.I.O...