Word: pinko
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wham!--another pinko...
...called How Free Is Free? The issue reported on civil liberties in the U.S., found them desperately menaced from all sides. Harvard Law Professor Zechariah Chafee Jr. found the U.S. turning "spies into heroes"; Matthew (The Robber Barons) Josephson discovered "book-burning" in schools and libraries. Scientists, charged Harvard pinko Professor (of geology) Kirtley F. Mather, have been hard hit because they "are peculiarly vulnerable to suspicion, recrimination and punishment." In education, entertainment, publishing, advertising and other fields, Nation contributors all turned in similar gloomy reports...
...picture, The Kid. Last week, bald, broke and all but forgotten, Coogan, 37, took what he could get in the way of a film job: a cowboy character part in a grade B western. Chaplin, now rich, white-haired, often mated (to four wives) and much berated (for his pinko leanings), announced that he had played the part of the Tramp for the last time. To Columnist Sidney Skolsky he said: "I've retired him. I'll never play him again, because he's got nothing more to say. I've been playing him for over...
Visiting: Kansas-born Dr. John A. (for Adams) Kingsbury, 74, onetime Manhattan social worker and tireless fellow traveler, who arrived in Russia last week for his second call in eight months. (On his first he headed a gaggle of U.S. pinko "peace partisans.") As chairman of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, ticketed as subversive by the Attorney General, Dr. Kingsbury was huzzaed at Moscow's Leningrad Station by bureaucrats of the Soviet Committee for the Defense of Peace and the Anti-Fascist Committee of Soviet Women. Purpose of his visit, explained Dr. Kingsbury: to study the Soviet...
Kingsley Martin, anti-American editor of Britain's pinko New Statesman and Nation (circ. 87,156), frequently writes as though the U.S., not Russia, is pushing the world toward atomic war. When Editor Martin heard U.S. Columnist Stewart Alsop assure Britain on a BBC program that "a certain left-wing British magazine," i.e., the New Statesman, was all wrong in any such interpretation of U.S. policy, Martin's feathers ruffled...