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...right wing progressive union" which "would bring about the most far-reaching changes only within our democratic framework." Dubinsky, says Stolberg, is a social politician equal to his times. For he understood that "the New Deal signalized a drastic reorientation in our society. It marked a real break with the past. The old voluntaristic drives, the 'rugged individualism' of both capital and labor, had lost their momentum. ... In its original impulses the New Deal was an American variant of European collectivisms - trying to function within our traditional system. Labor is at the very center of this social revolution...
...Service News remains a publication independent within the framework set up by its publishers. The Harvard Crimson...
...Houses of Lords and Commons. He had worked and reworked his speech with the little pencil stub he habitually uses. The address was, for him, an unusually succinct statement of his view that each Dominion must be free to go its own way within a loose Commonwealth framework. But it was no orator's triumph; Mackenzie King's drone had its usual soporific effect on his audience...
There was a time when a patient whose popeyes (exophthalmia) were getting worse (e.g., certain thyroid cases) could get no help from surgery, might go blind or even die. Then in 1931, Dr. H. C. Naffziger began making temporary windows through foreheads and removing some of the bony framework around the back of eye sockets. This made room within the head for swollen eye muscles, let eyes sink into place. He got good results in over three-quarters of his cases...
Labor. "The true status of man independent of economic profits must find expression in the managerial framework of industry; the rights of labor must be recognized as in principle equal to those of capital in the control of industry...