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Most embarrassing time of year for President Roosevelt is the time when his fellow citizens can have a field day quoting him against himself: budget time. Last week when he again sent a budget message to Congress, those many remembered utterances were more significant than usual. They served to document the fundamental changes which six years have wrought in Franklin Roosevelt's fiscal philosophy. Among them...
...document originally required that any kitchen or Dining Hall worker, union or "scab," who gave up his position should be replaced by an A. F. of L. member, provided one could be found inside 24 hours...
Examination of this document reveals that among the seventeen members there must be "at least one representative from each of the House units, and two members from the non-House group, one of whom must be a commuter." The inference is that the other non-House man will not be a commuter, but a non-House resident. However, inasmuch as the undergraduates living in the Varsity Club are included in the non-House category, it is obvious that at election time a man from this small group will be chosen to represent all the resident non-House students. This...
Next morning, worried, haggard Columnist Broun (who had approved the offending resolution) shambled to the platform, apologized for Mr. Watson's "clumsy wording" and declared the document didn't mean what it said, its denunciation did not apply to correspondents. Mr. Broun concluded: "But I do not except any publisher˜not a single one!" One Piece. To keep C.I.O.'s 41 national unions, 675 locals and 3,787,877 claimed members all in one piece, John Lewis depends upon: 1) his prestige; 2) the C.I.O. constitution, which vests large powers in his executive board...
Comrade Ryvin, a new official of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture, told the meeting of the following case: 'Once,' he said, 'we worked out the rates of remuneration of a certain class of collective-farm workers. It was an important and urgent document. We took it to the Vice Commissar for his approval. While, however, we were giving him our explanatory comment on the document, he fell asleep...