Word: pinko
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mark off another point reached in the McNutt campaign for the Presidency, which "Oomph Paul" began when he was seven years old. Apparently Mr. McHale had charted last week as "Be-Kind-To-Liberals-Week," for in seven days Mr. McNutt spoke in Lakeland, Fla., in Washington (to the pinko National Lawyers Guild), and to the Janizariat at the Cosmos-each time advocating broad-based, New Deal reform views...
Last week the pinko weekly New Republic gave itself a 25th birthday party. To its swank, Lescaze-designed Manhattan skyscraper office it invited representatives of that amorphous, shifting, elusive, body of opinion that is known as U. S. liberalism, displayed for them a 94-page supplement called The Promise of American Life. Present were amiable Robert Morss Lovett, Government-Secretary of the Virgin Islands, a New Republic editor for 18 years; Freda Kirchwey, editor of The Nation, the rival (74-year-old) liberal intellectual journal that looked exactly like the New Republic to outsiders, very different to liberal intellectuals. Present...
...America (Colgate) football star and Wall Street lawyer, married and divorced Sculptor Oscar Fulton Davisson Jr. Among such liberal minds as inhabited conservative New Canaan, Conn., Hester was in the forefront. Still within the pale, still listed in the Social Register, Hester was not Red, but a delicate pinko...
Since the Hitler-Stalin pact, U. S. fellow travelers have fallen away in droves, but the Communist rank & file has hung on through every swing toward Hitlerism. Pondering these tenacious loyalists, a writer in the pinko Nation last week observed: "Genuinely perturbed by the defections around them, they calmly recite Lenin's prophecy: When the locomotive of history takes a sharp turn, only the steadfast cling to the train...
...Majority Leader Barkley told the President that Senate confirmation of Wisconsin's pinko Tom Amlie-offensive to businessmen-to the ICC was doubtful, thereby giving rise to expectation that Mr. Amlie's name would be withdrawn...