Word: leftist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shortliffe has supported a minor leftist Canadian political party. He has called himself "a liberal socialist," and friends have described him "as sort of a New Dealer." On many occasions he has heartily subscribed to the principles of democratic society. So long as the immigration service, and the Department of Justice, remain silent, this outline of Shortliffe's politics must be considered to be completely correct...
...sparkplug of the congress was suave, greying Vicente Lombardo Toledano, Mexican boss of the leftist Latin American Confederation of Workers. An old hand at organizing pro-Communist meetings, he had the shabby hall packed on opening night with 5,000 people, including 800 delegates from the U.S., Canada and Latin America. During a two-hour delay before the rally got under way, they whooped it up with cheers for "Peace, Peace, Peace...
Anti-Communists hoped that the casino would fold, and with it the republic's leftist regime. Gildo Gasperoni had been heard to say: "If the casino succeeds we will be all right. If it doesn't, then we pack our bags and go." If Gasperoni went, thought San Marinese, Maxim might also go. He might even go in a cloud of sulphur smoke...
Informant ND-402 and friends had confided that Actress Helen Hayes had once performed at a benefit for Russian Relief just after the war and that New Hampshire's Republican Senator Charles Tobey had attended a leftist Madison Square Garden meeting on the atom bomb...
Future Dreams. The legion of sorrow became bored. The youngsters churned aimlessly around the lobby. Whenever the Duce's name was mentioned, their eyes lit up. A young man with a slight lisp boasted: "We are getting bigger and stronger. Last month we beat up 400 leftist bastards and put 17 in the hospital...