Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Clark, an ex-hog butcher, and his conservative fellow officers. They try to do the will of their tumultuous rank-&-file, keep the union's neck in and hold down its strong left wing (led by jut-jawed Director Herbert March of District 1), all at the same time...
This brought down on Red Mike the most unanimous editorial barrage he has ever suffered. The sober Times, the Republican Sun, the left-wing PM and even Columnist Fiorello LaGuardia (who was against the sale) burned Mike's ears with catcalls ranging from "unwise" to "blackmail." But New York's brand-new Mayor William D. O'Dwyer, elected last November with A.L.P. support, heeded the threat. He plumped for the referendum. Red Mike called off his strike...
...Paris, right-wing Socialist bigwigs sputtered that Nenni, "like Harold Laski," talked too much. Socialists would not form a Fifth International, they claimed: at most they would revive the moribund Second International. They charged Nenni with trying to deliver Socialism to the Communist ogre. When reminded that in London Nenni had spoken out against a merger with the Communists, they snapped: "That was on an odd day of the month. On even days he's for [it]." Declared a like-minded right-wing socialist in New York: "This mountain will give birth to a little left-wing mouse...
Mexico's left-wing moderns, who rode to fame in the turbulent revolutionary days of Mexico's Obregon Regime (1920-24), jumped at the chance to participate as painters, for the second time in their lives, in a political renaissance...
...Jayvee or Freshman teams, just returned from the wars. Coach Chase mentioned as his tentative starting lineup Johnny Knowles as goal-tender, Bob Cowen (who will leave the NROTC unit with his commission February 9) and Dick Greeley at the defense positions, Peter Eaton at left wing, Bob Feloney at center, and Bill Ayres, the team's captain at right wing...