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...step with the President's new appeasement program, and who consider Mr. Hull a single-track fuddy-duddy; 2) those Democrats pledged irrevocably to the candidacy of John Nance Garner; 3) Republican wiseacres who think Mr. Hull would be hard to beat, and who would much prefer a split Democratic party anyway...
...incredible slip, the Secretary of Labor got her facts mixed on the split between the Federation and John Lewis, erroneously reporting that the ten original C. I. O. unions were "expelled" in 1936. Hair-splitting Mr. Green reminded her that the ten were suspended in 1936, that only nine ever were expelled, and that the unexpelled tenth (David Dubinsky's Garment Workers) is edging back into the Federation. Fanny Perkins further irked Mr. Green by observing that both A. F. of L. and C. I. O. "claim" 4,000,000 members. "We do not 'claim, we report...
...included in the A. S. U.'s platform were 1) fear that a statement raising a moral issue over the Finnish war would be used by those seeking to involve the United States, and 2) taking a stand where there was so much disagreement would tend to split the Union...
...joined Russia's radical movement in 1894 and aligned himself with the Social Democratic Party in 1898. He was astute enough to choose the Bolsheviks rather than the Mensheviks when the Party split in 1903. His first contact with revolutionary bigwigs came when he attended a Party powwow in Vienna. Leon Trotsky noticed him in passing; Nikolai Lenin, who had first met him in 1905 in Finland, set him to work writing an article on the Marxist theory of governing minorities. It was in signing this article that he first used the signature "J. Stalin." "We have here...
...Pacific Gas & Electric Co., with unpaid loans totaling $2,677,310. Next was a group of contractors and other unsecured creditors, to whom the Fair owed $1,464,913. Decision of about 65% of the creditors (including the banks, P. G. & E., Standard Oil) was to take their licking, split up some $650,000 coming to them (about 23? on the dollar), and have no more to do with the Fair...