Word: pinko
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME [May 25] you depart from your usual independence of judgment when you side with the mob in general, New Dealers in particular, and "pinko" New Republic in very particular in condemning and ridiculing members of Congress. Out here where we like to think things through instead of becoming hysterical, the members of Congress look as good to us or better than the members of the packed Supreme Court or the screwballs making up the "New Deal" administration-e.g., Harold Ickes, Henry Morgenthau Jr. and the like...
California Democrats are out this year to liquidate Republican Congressman Leland M. Ford*-who is what pinko weeklies call "an arch labor-baiter." To do the trick they picked a well-known name that covered an unknown political quantity. Their candidate: Will Rogers Jr., 29, son of the late, famed humorist...
...referring to him as a sponsor of the pinko American League for Peace & Democracy, David B. Vaughan, a divisional chief of the BEW, sued Congressman Martin Dies for $75,000 libel damages. The only organizations he belongs to, protested Vaughan, are the Society for Advancement of Management, the Society for Personnel Administration and the Methodist Church...
Into uniform at last goes pinko, 32-year-old "Youth" Leader Joseph P. Lash next week. Refused a commission in the Navy despite the support of Friend Eleanor Roosevelt, he applied for enlistment in the Army, last week was ordered to report for induction as a private, April...
...Collectivism is coming, whether we like it or not," the delegates were told by no less a churchman than England's Dr. William Paton, co-secretary of the World Council of Churches, but the conference did not veer as far to the left as its definitely pinko British counterpart, the now famous Malvern Conference (TIME, Jan. 20, 1941). It did, however, back up Labor's demand for an increasing share in industrial management. It echoed Labor's shibboleth that the denial of collective bargaining "reduces labor to a commodity." It urged taxation designed "to the end that...