Word: wing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus his political problem was twofold: to strike out forcefully against domestic Communism, but not to play into the hands of the Republican party's midwestern wing, which, to that time, had profited most from the Communist issue. The Harry Dexter White case represented the first part of this strategy. That Brownell made unprecedented public use of secret FBI files was overshadowed in the public mind by the fact that he had uncovered a spy high up in Truman's Treasury Department. Brownell followed this exposure with requests for "new and powerful constitutional weapons" to fight subversion. They included death...
Said the right-wing pro-Gaullist L'Aurore: "This confidence vote had nothing to do with 'confidence.' " Said the right-wing independent Le Figaro: "The parties did not want to choke Laniel to death, they merely wanted to make it difficult for him to continue breathing." The left-wing Socialist Franc-Tireur: "By scientifically doctoring its votes, the Chamber has . . . condemned itself even more severely than it condemned the government...
...column Sokolsky supports the far right wing of the Republican Party. He wanted either Taft or MacArthur to get the presidential nomination, and has been a frequent critic of the Eisenhower Administration. He is also one of McCarthy's stoutest journalistic defenders. But in his columns on McCarthy and the Army, Columnist Sokolsky has never reported on the part of the story he knows best: his own role in the battle...
Then Premier Laniel made up his mind, announced that the Russian ballet would be postponed indefinitely. The press, and not alone the left-wing papers, jumped on Laniel's decision ("Your gesture is not French"). It was the first victory France had won against Communism in a long time-and few Frenchmen were proud of it. At week's end the troupe trooped to the airport, leaving behind it an accusing statement by the Russian dancers' Director Tchoulaki."Faced with this unfavorable attitude on the part of the French government," it read, "the Russian government has decided...
...lives in a Texas version of Mount Vernon, i.e., bigger. ¶ Hugh Roy Cullen, 72, of Houston, is another far-right winger, but no friend of H. L. Hunt. He is Senator McCarthy's patron saint in Texas, has contributed to McCarthy's campaigns and right-wing Republican causes. Cullen has also contributed much to Houston, has put aside an estimated $160 million for colleges, hospitals and charitable organizations. ¶Sam Wilson, 49, of Corpus Christi, is a wildcatter described as a "Glenn McCarthy who managed to hold onto it." With part of his oil wealth, Horse Lover...