Word: pinko
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John L. Lewis' defiance of the President jarred the whole U.S. From left & right, commentators smote him hip & thigh. Cried the pinko New Republic: "The magnificent megalomania of John L. Lewis has reached its apogee." The cartoonists of the nation with almost unexampled unanimity took their pens and demolished him (see cuts...
...seen two especially remarkable, though perhaps temporary, conversions-of New York's gangling, muscle-bound Ham Fish, and excitable pinko Vito Marcantonio. Fish took the floor to condemn the bill unsparingly until his colleague, New Jersey's white-haired, red-faced Charles Aubrey Eaton, quietly asked him how he was going to vote. Representative Fish gulped heavily, admitted that he would vote for the bill, faded out of the debate. Same evening little pinko Marcantonio, who had firmly voted against all national-defense appropriations and foreign-policy moves, jumped up, shrieked...
...think it is necessary. . . ." said pinko Vito Marcantonio...
...lines with which they had contracts, its West Coast brother union struck several Pacific Coast ships tied up in New York harbor. Bad as it was, the strike could have been worse. Great majority of East Coast vessels are manned not by A.F. of L. seamen but sailors of pinko Joseph Curran's C.I.O. maritime union. Mr. Curran, who ceased being an isolationist when holy Russia was invaded by Germany, is now an advocate of all-out aid. Last week he kept his 40,000 East Coast seamen, who would also like bigger bonuses, at work...
Elected to his position was quiet, obscure Albert J. Fitzgerald, no Red, international vice president and president of the New England district. Re-elected were pinko James J. Matles, director of organizations, and pinko Julius Emspak, secretary-treasurer, who expect to run the union now that Carey is gone...