Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Peace Mobilizers, who had picketed the White House early in 1941 with cries of warmongering, then neatly flip-flopped the day Germany invaded Russia. One of the speakers at the inaugural convention was a member of Greece's Communist-led EAM; others were from the far left wing of the U.S. Congress: Washington's Hugh de Lacy, California's Ellis Patterson...
...week, the day after the nominating conventions. Tom Dewey, renominated for Governor by the G.O.P., came out swinging at the Democratic ticket, linking it with the red-rimmed American Labor Party and the C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee. Cried Prosecutor Tom: the A.L.P. is "dominated by the left-wing line of a foreign power." A slambang, right-v.-left battle was on, and both parties welcomed...
...balding schoolteacher, Guy Mollet, and a phalanx of 60-odd associates, the left wing of the French Socialist Party rebelled against Léon Blum's moderate, anti-Communist leadership. By a vote of 2,964-to-1,363 (with 145 abstentions), the annual Party Congress rejected the Executive Bureau's activities report. General Secretary Daniel Mayer (a moderate) promptly resigned. Léon Blum pleaded with the rebels ("Participation of Communists in a government without any doubt serves the interests of Russia. It is not for us to enter into a government so that we could plant...
...planes were mostly stripped-down ex-Army pursuits-wax-covered P-38s, fat-bellied P-51 Mustangs, and a Kingcobra with two feet chopped off each wing. They roared down the runway at the Van Nuys airfield, zoomed above the Hollywood hills...
...Vito Marcantonio, the most vocal Communist-line member of Congress, and left-wing Congressman Adam Clayton Powell (husband of boogie-woogie Pianist Hazel Scott) had won not only the Democratic and American Labor Party primaries, but the Republican as well...