Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Very few people in Ireland regret the election of Mr. McBride to Parliament for they recognize his personal ability, but they do fear any further successes for his party, for they consist almost entirely of discontented left-wing De Valera-ites or members of the Irish Republican Army, which openly backed Germany during...
...week's end, about the only supporters Henry had left besides the P.C.A. were the Communist Daily Worker, Vito Marcantonio, Harry Bridges, and a fringe of other left-wing labor men. Six days after the proposal was made, Henry had not yet said either yes or no. But it was painfully evident to Democratic politicians that if he did form a third party, it would be bad for them, although not necessarily fatal. Republicans were jubilant: it would do them no harm whatsoever...
...party line from Moscow. British Communists must pep up their policy of gnawing into the trade unions and nagging at the Labor government (which they helped to elect in 1945) for cooperation with the U.S. Pollitt declared war on the Labor Government, which he sneered at as "Right-Wing Social Democracy." British Communists, said Pollitt, must start an organizing drive among trade unions. Their immediate objective was the same as that of French, Italian and U.S. Communists: to scuttle the Marshall Plan...
...auctioneer, resplendent in morning coat and wing collar, said: "I am offered 1,000 guineas for lot 11." In the front row, a bidder merely lifted his finger to raise the price to 1,500 guineas. Near him another deliberate finger went up, and the bid rose to 2,000. Thus calmly and decorously went the biggest art auction of the year, held in London by Christie, Manson & Woods-the world-famed "Christie...
...antiCommunists' move. In Washington, President Harry Truman announced that, although the last U.S. troops in Italy were embarking for home, the U.S. would consider "appropriate" measures if Italy's freedom were threatened "directly or indirectly." In Rome, Giuseppe Saragat, overcoming a deep reluctance, brought his right-wing Socialists into the government and became a vice-premier. De Gasperi would now have a comfortable Assembly majority for the first time. The Communists and the left-wing Nenni Socialists had been isolated...