Word: leftist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington: Artist, ardent leftist and Eskimo-lover, tall, long-jawed Rockwell Kent, who designed this year's National Tuberculosis Association Christmas seals; Harold Ickes; Norman Davis, Red Cross head; James Farley; Henry Morgenthau...
Congressman Jerry Voorhis of San Dimas, Calif., a little Leftist, was placed on the Dies committee last February to counterbalance its Red-hunting chairman. Jerry Voorhis soon was more appalled by his new view of U. S. Communists and Nazis than by the antics of Martin Dies. Having come to check and scoff, the new member remained to respect the work if not the chairman of the committee. But last week Mr. Voorhis suddenly drew back, cried: "I can't vote for that...
Three daughters had the late Robert W. Gibson, wealthy architect, designer of the New York Botanical Garden Museum. Lydia was a leftist. A painter, sculptress, contributor to the old (Communist) Masses and Liberator, she became in 1922 the wife of well-known Communist Leader Robert Minor. Already she had been banished from the Social Register. Poor dear Lydia was beyond the pale...
Scrawny, Negrophilous, bohemian Lady Nancy Cunard, of the British shipping family, persistently blocked from leftist wartime work in Paris, finally became exasperated, shrilled at nagging critics: "Do you realize that you are talking to the representative of 56 world-wide Negro newspapers...
...California students can now use more specific ratings of their professors. Last week undergraduates on California's Berkeley campus thumbed a handy guide to their faculty. The booklet, called Guide to Courses, was compiled by an anonymous group of students, sold for 10? a copy by a leftist campus bookshop. Candid, irreverent but informative, the Guide to Courses quickly sold 515 copies. Sample ratings...