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...adjunct of the League of Nations, not to be confused with the Red Third International, headquartered at Moscow (TIME, June 9). In Geneva, however, members of the League Secretariat tend to regard employes of the Labor Office as socially beneath them and slightly pinko, which they...
...this year lasted but a day and whose openly discussed problems were few. routine. Ot greater public interest, however, was a thoroughgoing criticism of their organization just completed in two installments by aggressive Oswald Garrison Villard. onetime (1897-1918) president of the New York Evening Post, in his Nation (pinko weekly). Under the title "The Associated Press," Editor Villard, once on the A. P. board of directors, paid due tribute to some 80,000 newsgatherers affiliated with the A. P. who "despite the relatively poor salaries . . . must be the first into any disease-ridden or any calamity-scourged town...
Highly controversial and pinko-socialistic, the Bill aims to regulate the coal output of all Great Britain, reduce working hours, and set up a national wages board...
Just what were Inventor Edison's inmost thoughts about that celebration, or about his whole career and the fruits thereof and the uses to which they have been put, the public may not know. But last week Inventor Edison and the public could read in the Nation (pinko-liberal weekly) a fantasy by James Rorty, Irish-American free lancer, entitled "The Inventor Enters Heaven," which took for its point of departure a ten-minute interval of darkness and silence all over the U. S. in tribute to a deceased Inventor whom none could fail to recognize...
...well-to-do," writes Editor Oswald Garrison Villard of the pinko- liberal Nation, "contented and privileged, Older is an anathema. They not only hate, fear and distrust him, they honor him by their disbelief in his sincerity and honesty. To them 'the friend of crooks' is as good as a crook himself. . . . But his friends see in Fremont Older a journalistic knight-errant of superb power, who can never be made to know that he is beaten when it comes to a straight-put fight...