Word: pinko
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heard the Un-American Activities Committee recommend that the pinko National Lawyers Guild be added to the Attorney General's subversive list as an agent of the Soviet Union and that its 3,891 members be forbidden to work for the U.S. Government...
...million loan, with no strings attached, to Franco's Spain. The House argued over that one. Supporters saw it as buying the cooperation of Spain in event of war in Europe, and at least as morally justified as a loan to Tito. Not only New York's pinko Vito Marcantonio was disturbed by the loan; Virginia's conservative Howard Smith demanded to know what guarantee anybody had that Franco would help the West in case of war. What was Franco's "note" worth-"a guy like that?" he demanded. But the loan went through...
...pinko National Guardian, staffers were accused of violating the pay scale ($60 minimum for writers) in their Guild contract by kicking back part of their salaries as "loans" to management to keep the near-bankrupt weekly going...
...Guildsmen on the pinko Daily Compass were accused of working in collusion with Editor & Publisher Ted Thackrey in the immediate economy firing of 13 employees, despite a Guild contract clause requiring 30 days' notice. ¶ Guildsmen on the Communist Daily Worker were charged with siding with management to keep the old pay scale ($71 minimum for reporters), while the Guild's local leaders were trying to raise Worker salaries in line with those on other Manhattan dailies...