Word: pinko
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When strikers picketed a New Haven foundry last fortnight, a Yale senior named Lawrence Hill marched down to help. As secretary of Yale's chapter of the pinko National Student's League, Picketer Hill was putting his social idealism into rough & tumble practice. For his pains a policeman named Enright thwacked Yaleman Hill on the head, arrested...
...Connecticut. Career doings of the other six Bingham sons: Woodbridge, 32, is studying for a Ph. D. in Chinese history at Stanford University. Hiram Jr., 30, one of the U. S. Foreign Service, is at the U. S. Embassy in London. Alfred Mitchell, 29, an attorney, helps publish the pinko fortnightly Common Sense in Manhattan. Charles Tiffany, 27, is an interne at the Hartford Hospital. Brewster, 25, who during his Yale years used to go on long fasts, beg food from startled New Haven housewives as a religious discipline, is studying for the ministry at Manhattan's Union Theological...
...reported. And "the question [of the man on the street] heard everywhere around the Capitol is, 'What chance have we got?' " Pitched to a sustained keynote of Wall Street wickedness. Tucker's stories were masterfully written and made exciting reading. Also in the World Telegram, Pinko Heywood Broun surpassed himself with cynical skits about the House of Morgan and its Friends in high places. Apropos the 1929 letter of Morgan Partner William Ewing by which William H. Woodin, now Secretary of the Treasury, was let in on the ground floor of Alleghany Corp. stock because...
Strongest were rumors that Pinko Mr. Chen may emerge as Foreign Minister of the projected coalition. He has been much at Moscow, would give Chinese policy a sharp leftward twist...
Roar China! Last year the scholarly Theatre Guild went somewhat pinko when it produced Red Rust, an explanation of and a bald piece of propaganda for the social system in U. S. S. R. The Guild's pinko presentation this year is good Soviet drama, but it is not chiefly concerned with boosting Communism. It is. rather, a majestic piece of stagecraftsmanship which takes as its text the exploitation of helpless, sprawling China by a red-faced British Imperialism, aided and abetted by a sour-faced U. S. Protestantism. Roar China! was written for the famed Meierhold Theatre in Moscow...