Word: pinko
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...Nation is a pulp-paper, pinko weekly in what publishers call the "deficit group" of magazines. Only in a few of its 78 years has it ever made money, and even then the profits were minuscule. Nevertheless, with annually solicited contributions, the Nation managed to stay alive...
Vito Vetoed. The House, at last, got all its committee assignments straightened out, but not without some hurt feelings and one bitter scrap. All hell broke loose when North Carolina's conservative Robert ("Muley") Doughton submitted the name of New York's tough, pinko Vito Marcantonio as a member of the potent Judiciary Committee. Marcantonio, the only American Laborite in the House, had fought defense measures before the Nazi attack on Russia in 1941; afterwards he had screamed for an A.E.F. He had infuriated Southerners by plugging for bills against poll taxes and lynching. Croaked wrathful Judiciary Committee...
...this program a direct threat to its power. Most recruits are pink-cheeked, corn-fed youngsters from the Midwest who have never seen deep water, or been exposed to unionism. They are far different from the old-line shellback malcontents who were duck soup for Curran's earlier pinko type of organizing, and they are not obliged to hold union cards. Only 1,000 to 1,500 monthly swing over to N.M.U. This percentage is not big enough if Curran is to hold his grip...
...Stalinist, non-Trotskyist) radicalism. Founder Alfred Bingham, one of the seven versatile sons of Connecticut's Old Guard Republican Senator Hiram, had at the age of 27 already traveled around Europe and taught school in Russia. Founder Selden Rodman, was, at 23, a poet who detested the word pinko and who, at Yale, edited a radical undergraduate magazine...
...pledged to an all-out war effort. She thought she was giving her blessing to a program of the entire Labor Party. But in recent weeks the Red left wing has been using the months-old letter in an effort to show that she supported them against the merely pinko right wing. The President's wife, as angry as she permits herself to get, wrote a stinging rebuke to the Red wing...