Word: wing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McCarthy snorted: "The snakes didn't like St. Patrick's methods, and the Communists don't like mine." Fighting to divert attention from Cohn and Schine, whom he did not mention, McCarthy blasted out at various villains whom he identified as "eggheads," "deluded liberals," "the left-wing press," "the jackal pack," "Pentagon politicians...
...began a career in the German civil service but was fired by the Nazis (1939) and turned to mining (basalt). After World War II he pitched into Christian Democratic politics, was soon on the party's three-man executive board, the recognized leader of its strong Catholic right wing, and one of Adenauer's busiest campaign speakers. (Wurmeling, his wife recalls, campaigned so hard that "he used to give speeches in his sleep.") After the last election. Adenauer repaid the debt by creating the Ministry for Family Affairs and commissioning Franz-Josef Wurmeling to try to promote...
...week's end McCarthy was still firing countercharges from the hip. From Midwestern platforms he repeatedly blasted Murrow for being an "extreme left-wing bleeding heart," and reported in shocked tones that in 1935 Murrow had been on the advisory council for a summer school at Moscow University. Murrow professed an inability to define "bleeding heart" but freely conceded that his position was "to the left of both McCarthy and Louis XIV." The advisory council, he pointed out, had consisted of 25 U.S. educators, ranging from the University of Chicago's Robert Hutchins to Smith College...
...member Eduskunta remained essentially unchanged. Finns gave their Communists more votes (21% against 16% last election), but the same number of seats (43) in the parliament. The Social Democrats picked up one seat (54); the Agrarians gained two (53); the liberal Finnish National Party gained 3 (13); the right-wing Swedish People's lost 2 (13); the Conservatives lost four...
Last fall Paris' big (est. circ. 400,000), right-wing L'Aurore charged that L'Humanité, whose circulation has dropped from 600,000 to 172,000 in the last seven years, "would long ago be dead if [it had not received] subsidies from abroad." L'Humanité replied with a libel suit against L'Aurore, demanded 1,000,000 francs damages. In court, witness after witness backed up L'Aurore's charges of support from Russia. Among them...