Word: leftists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Estenssoro, taking power in a leftist revolution in 1952, nationalized the big tin mines and energetically pushed the state oil monopoly, formed in 1937 after an earlier government had forced out Standard Oil Co. of N.J. On the face of it, these moves made the chance of new foreign oil investment in Bolivia look dim indeed. Nonetheless, Paz Estenssoro made a hard-boiled decision that Bolivia needed foreign capital, and in 1955 enacted a liberal code for oil operators from abroad. Last week Pittsburgh's Gulf Oil Corp., first big operator to move in, signed a 40-year agreement...
...London, aging (64) Comedian Charlie Chaplin, now living in Swiss exile (where, he claims, U.S. persecution drove him because of his leftist beliefs), announced plans for a new movie, "the funniest ever.'' Title: The King in New York. Synopsis: A Ruritanian monarch (Chaplin), booted off his throne because he tried to divert his country's atomic research to purely peaceful ends, flees to New York, falls in love with a Madison Avenue huckstress, is persecuted as a Communist, returns to Europe and lives happily ever after...
Died. Robert Morss Lovett. 85, longtime (1893-1939) leftist faculty member of the University of Chicago, associate editor (1921-40) of the New Republic, Government Secretary to the Virgin Islands (1939-43), co-author with William Moody of the oldtime college textbook, A History of English Literature; in Chicago. Charged with Communist sympathies by the old Dies Committee. Lovett was fired from his Virgin Islands post, was cleared in 1946 by the U.S. Court of Claims...
Kubitschek has no rigid political ideology. He can adapt his viewpoint to an audience or a situation as effortlessly as water conforms to the shape of a pitcher. He has been called, among other things, "leftist" and "conservative." Neither tag really fits, but conservative is probably the less inaccurate of the two. His presidential campaign slogan was unemotional and unglamorous; he promised, not a political reformation or social transformation, but "Power, Transportation and Food...
Soon after the election, Kubitschek announced his plans for a foreign tour before inauguration day (Jan. 31). Besides winning attention abroad for Brazil's crucial economic problems, he wanted to dispel the notion that he is a leftist with links of some sort to Brazil's illegal Communist Party. Kubitschek is actually a middle-roader, a founding member of the moderately conservative Social Democratic Party, but he accepted a leftish Labor Party leader as his vice-presidential running mate. On top of that, he failed to reject the Communist Party's bandwagon-climbing endorsement. Inevitably, opponents labeled...