Word: pinko
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...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...
...rate reporter's account of the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece. He followed up his success by becoming a novelist (It's Always Tomorrow'), popular lecturer and radio commentator, received the accolade of the Left when he was dropped by NBC last year because, in pinko PM's opinion at least, he was "too liberal." Now, St. John has written one of the longest (210,000 words) studies of Yugoslavia since Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon...
...executive committee of the pinko Progressive Citizens of America (of which he is carefully not a member) urged him to run for President as an independent. If this move was calculated to set off a triumphal procession through the ranks of "liberals" and organized labor, someone had missed the cue. Actually, it started a spontaneous rush for the doors. Great segments of potential Wallace strength vanished in a storm of disaffection...