Word: leftist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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August: The Democratic Senatorial primary fight in Massachusetts will find James M. Curley calling Paul A. Dever a "leftist." After Dever wins, the two will make up, and decide that the real "leftist" is Senator Leverett Saltonstall...
...biography, two well-known men told a great deal about themselves and about each other in one of the longest correspondences of the century. The Holmes-Laski Letters were part mutual-admiration society, part intellectual fencing match between an old-fashioned liberal and an agile-minded, often devious leftist...
Never have I read a more typical proCommunist, appeasing Laborite pronouncement on the misunderstandings between ourselves and England than TIME'S [Oct. 12] page-wasted article: "A British View of United States Policy." From actual contact, I know these obnoxiously expressed opinions of leftist Tom Driberg to be far from typically British and even farther from typically Christian...
...attack on U.S. foreign policy by Britain's Tom Driberg, Bevanite Socialist member of Parliament (TIME, Oct. 12), shocked some of Driberg's fellow countrymen as much as it did the Americans for whom it was intended. Malcolm Muggeridge is a onetime leftist turned conservative, a former British newspaper correspondent in Moscow (1932-33) and Washington (1946-48), and currently the highly articulate editor of Punch. Muggeridge's answer to Driberg...
...Frederika was more than ever fearful of the man who thus stood as her only rival for the love of the people. At the Queen's urging, King Paul seized on a technicality of the election machinery, passed over the Marshal, and called on a coalition of his leftist opponents to form a government. The following year, when Papagos ran again under a revised electoral system. Frederika devoted herself to preventing his election, despite past warnings by both Grady and Peurifoy against such politicking. The result of her efforts was that Papagos won by a clear majority...