Word: pinkos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reasons for speaking up. Unlike Americans, who get their radio programs free, over nine million British radio owners pay ten shillings apiece yearly for the privilege of listening to their only broadcasting system. For their money they get the product of a semi-government monopoly which England's pinko New Statesman & Nation terms "the usual British compromise between incompatibles." Constitutionally attached to the office of the Minister of Information-by a clause so elastic that the Minister can always disclaim control of BBC-BBC is theoretically not controlled by the Government. It is theoretically not a private monopoly, either...
...with the rejection of the League and the rise of the "red menace" the New Republic lost 40% of its circulation. Branded as Socialistic, Communistic and pinko, the New Republic has not enjoyed an easy acceptance by the great reading public. Yet it has not done so badly...
...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...