Word: pinko
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About the same time it was decided that tousle-headed, slow-spoken, walrus-mustached National Director Henry Alsberg seemed a little too pinko, talked a little too much about his indigestion, was a little too slow in getting production started on the Guide Books and other projects. He retired from WPA. Alsberg and colleagues had started out to produce great Art. Congress by & large preferred results...
...John Hammond, pinko, Negrophile, jazz-purist and talent scout for Columbia, WPA seemed insulting to workers, degrading to Negroes. "It's inciting everything that's lousy," proclaimed Mr. Hammond, and took steps. He asked Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. to alter the offensive lyrics. They refused. Thereupon Mr. Hammond squashed a projected Columbia recording of the song, and called the cops-the New York local of the American Federation of Musicians...
...last of these, The Prodigal Parents, took a beating even from reviewers who recognized Lewis as still the most important novelist in the U. S. It was a wayward, shallow, cantankerous mummery in which Lewis exalted the wisdom of a motor dealer at the expense of his stupidly pinko kids...
Ever since the American Student Union was organized four years ago to make U. S. undergraduates "socially conscious," it has tried to live down a pinko reputation. Formed in the sweet-tempered period of the United Front by a merger of the Communist National Student League, the Socialist Student League for Industrial Democracy and assorted earnest liberals, the Union made more noise than converts. As late as last month, it was still a prime fishing preserve of the Dies Committee...
...mark off another point reached in the McNutt campaign for the Presidency, which "Oomph Paul" began when he was seven years old. Apparently Mr. McHale had charted last week as "Be-Kind-To-Liberals-Week," for in seven days Mr. McNutt spoke in Lakeland, Fla., in Washington (to the pinko National Lawyers Guild), and to the Janizariat at the Cosmos-each time advocating broad-based, New Deal reform views...