crummies = communists

[Mullins, Bill]

crummies (= communists) -- not in OED

muscovites (=communists) -- not in OED

"Fair Enough" Westbrook Pegler, Los Angeles Times Jun 6, 1941;  pg. 2A col 7.

"I thought you might like to hear how things have been going in the long campaign of the Muscovites, or Commies or Crummies, as they are variously known to the Americans in the newspaper business, to destroy the American Newspaper Guild, which was organized a few years ago as a union of editorial workers for the purpose of improving wages, reducing hours, and protecting us inkstained wrteches from the economic pogroms of the front office."

later in the same article:

red-baiter -- OED has 1950; and 

bleeding heart -- OED has 1958

"The Americans have been on to this for a couple of years, however, and, although a few intellectual bleeding-hearts who would say Joe Stalin was a Communist lest the comrades call them red-baiters have been insisting doggedly that Communism is no issue, nobody is fooled on that point any more."

 

Two new senses/words, and two antedatings in one article  -- not bad.