Word: pinko
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impossible to state in precise terms how uncomfortable the situation was. It was true that mobilization had rubbed the nation's race problem raw. Pinko agitators, self-styled liberals and other citizens of good will had plucked at the sore. The thin-skinned and irritable Negro press, which has seldom missed a report of injustice to Negro troops and has played it for all it would stand, continued to print most of the sensational and baseless yarns which flew around, from standard soldiers' gripes on up. The truth lay somewhere between such red-eyed denunciation and the bland...
...airlines are certain that the keystone of that U.S. policy should be wide-open competition on foreign routes. Quietly but persistently, Pan American's famed president, Juan Terry Trippe, has opposed this stand, urging instead the "chosen instrument" policy (TIME, Nov. 8). This week, pinko Author Matthew Josephson (The Robber Barons, The Politicos) entered the controversy with a new book, Empire of the Air (Harcourt, Brace; $3). In trying to decide between the two views, Author Josephson has adopted a historical method: to determine whether competition or the "chosen instrument" is better, first study how the methods have worked...
...pinko New Republic has been found by the New Leader to show symptoms of "totalitarian liberalism" and also to be "a journal of subsidized opinion." (The New Republic, non-interventionist until a few months before Pearl Harbor, shifted to reflect the views of its owner, Mrs. Leonard K. Elmhirst. U.S.-born, she has become a British citizen, was co-founder of the New Republic with her late husband, Willard Straight...
Bullfighting and Protestantism. Manhattan's pinko New Republic published Gide's most recent opinions on U.S. writing. "No other contemporary literature," said Gide, "arouses my curiosity more. . . ." Gide listed among his favorite U.S. authors: 1) Novelist Ernest Hemingway -"I have none of his love for bullfighting, and yet there is no American author I would rather meet." 2) Novelist John Steinbeck-"some of the stories in ... The Long Valley . . . equal or surpass the best tales of Chekhov." 3) Crimester Dashiell Hammett-"I regard his Red Harvest as a remarkable achievement, the last word in atrocity, cynicism and horror...
Some old Shuster friends were unhappy about his letter. They felt as if he were threatening just about everybody in sight. The pinko-red tabloid PM first saluted Shuster as "realistic, contemporary and liberal," but two days later attacked him for "applying the method of command and authoritarianism...