Word: leftwards
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...When he said, "My heart bleeds for the Newspaper Guild," he really meant that he would like to see newspaper reporters get a better deal. But as Hearst's lawyer in the Call-Bulletin case, he considered the Guild a menace, fought it to a standstill, drove it Leftward toward trade unionism (TIME. Dec. 24). Twitted for defending bankers thrice in two years he explains: "The underdog needs friends. The bankers are so friendless now, even the politicians have courage to attack them...
...rich. In the U. S., decades ago, Methodists began preaching Prohibition, that great reform which was to save people from the brewers and saloonkeepers. Methodists also espoused labor's causes - collective bargaining, shorter hours, unemployment insurance- when to do so seemed downright radical. Today in the perceptible leftward swing of U. S. religion, Methodism as a whole has gone farther than any other single sect. Some recent examples...
Focus of the fight was: 1) a mass of detailed criticism of particular NRA codes from the Darrow artillery; 2) an equally detailed counter-volley from NRA's Counsel, Donald Richberg. Mr. Darrow was for a strong Leftward swing by NRA toward Socialism. General Johnson stoutly defended the patchwork job he had done for Capitalism. Mr. Sinclair engaged in a flanking fire upon the Darrow board's methods and conclusions. The gist of their viewpoints...
...been just Republican enough to bear the name but always he has been poised on the crux of great issues, waiting until lesser men have spent their arguments, to impart his Olympian conclusions. His last great cry was for an Honest Dollar. Now that the dollar has moved Leftward to 60?, his cry is for collecting the War debts, a notion that Calvin Coolidge used to play with...
...undenominational religious magazine, leftward in its liberalism, The World Tomorrow was founded in 1918 with Norman Mattoon Thomas as first editor. It is becoming a weekly, after 15 years, because "the times in which we are now living demand a sustained emphasis upon religion, pacifism, and socialism, and . . . no other American journal is concentrating upon this combination...