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...Army who serve in posts and stations all over the United States and in every overseas theatre of operations. A great majority of the chaplains on active duty today are graduates of the Chaplain School at Harvard which began classes on August 10, 1942 after transferring from Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana...
...Cutter. Some of Sidney Hillman's journalistic biographers, notably the apostate leftist, Benjamin Stolberg, who profiled him in the Saturday Evening Post in 1940, insist that Hillman's sole talent is to coast along on the influence of his friends.* This is not wholly true, though Hillman indubitably has made his friendships work...
TAILOR'S PROGRESS-Benjamin Stolberg-Doubleday, Doran...
...whom New York Times Reviewer John Chamberlain calls "one of the great journalists of our times" has written one of the most important books about U.S. labor. Benjamin Stolberg's Tailor's Progress is a history of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (I.L.G. W.U.-membership: 310,000), a keen commentary on U.S. social politics, a detailed, sometimes brilliant biography of an outstanding social politician, I.L.G.W.U.'s President David Dubinsky...
...unreconstructed idealist, one of those rare spirits whose goodness was felt by all who came in contact with him." When he veered toward liberalism, the left-wing needle trades union called him "a deserter." "This wounded his moral self-esteem," and he resigned in "disgust with the whole mess." Benjamin Schlesinger, president of the I.L.G.W.U. Born in Lithuania, Schlesinger began his U.S. life as a boy match peddler in the Chicago slums. "The really dominant emotional undertone in Schlesinger's long career was a deep, almost fierce devotion to this country and its democratic institutions." For him "America...