Word: pinko
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that he was a member of a privileged profession. The press has not objected to congressional investigation in the past (TIME, Feb. 4, 1952). especially since journalism has had its share of Communist infiltration. The Post's editorials, under Editor Ted Thackrey, later editor of the now-defunct pinko Manhattan Compass, had followed the party line intermittently, and the paper still has its share of ex-Communists and onetime fel low travelers on its staff. But it was under Editor Wechsler that the Post became consistently antiCommunist...
...Danger Signals" paints our educators as Caspar Milquetoasts who are afraid of their own shadows. One of the prerequisites of the teaching profession used to be moral courage; another used to be intellectual honesty . . . Marxists can have moral courage, as the victims of Stalinist purges have demonstrated. But our "pinko-to-magenta" pedagogues are completely lacking in moral courage; they appear to be neither fish (democrats: believers in government by the people) nor fowl (Marxists: believers in government by misanthropy...
...Protest. Next day Editor Dakin (once a staffer on Manhattan's late, pinko PM) called in Moon and fired him himself. "I pointed out that the evidence against me was a little flimsy," said Moon, "and could easily be answered. Dakin just said that firing me would take the pressure off Collier's." If he was being fired for that reason only, Moon wanted a letter saying so. Wrote Dakin: "We have been eminently satisfied with your work in the fiction department." Moon insists that he has never been a Communist, that his name was not authorized...
...Whose iconoclast grandmother, Mrs. Emmons Elaine, backed the defunct pinko Compass (TIME...
...Manhattan's pinko Daily Compass finally folded. Deep in debt, the three-year-old tabloid, lineal descendant of the pinko PM, reached a peak circulation of 54,000 after the start of the Korean war, then slumped to 30,000. The Compass, originally backed by International Harvester heiress Mrs. Emmons Elaine, 86 (TIME. May 16, 1950), was in the red more often than the black. This week the paper's mortgagors and creditors closed in and sold the Compass' fixtures and machinery at auction. Said Editor Ted Thackrey: "We ran out of money. We're through...