Word: unionization
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...beer of another brew to A. F. of L. and C. I. 0. organizers, who arrived in the Valley two years ago to spread the gospel of the Wagner Act. Their sermons seemed to make no sense: they said that what George F.'s workers needed was a union to protect them from George...
...interests considered "safe" gained easy election to Congress, and the Senate was dubbed the "rich man's club." Naturally a host of intellectuals and liberals held up their hands in horror. Anglophiles among them looked across the sea and eulogized the English civil service, the tradition that the Oxford Union is a stepping stone to Parliament, the ease with which the English gentleman could assert his divine right to rule. While these commentators may have been swept off their feet by admiration for the English "genteel tradition," there is no doubt that they gleamed an idea from their observations...
...many years there lingered on the hoary old gentlemen of the Union League Club, who saw in this reform the be-all and end-all of good government. Civil service passed through a period of fetishism, surely, but today it is firmly founded on common sense. It is now making the advances to the colleges, carefully tending its preserves. Mr. Stocking doesn't have any Senatorial togas in his suitcase for distribution to likely men, but he represents the leadership of an enlightened and smooth-working bureaucracy. His work keeps alive the spirit of reform that burst forth so enthusiastically...
Hicks described the complete "disillusionment with the Soviet Union" which radical authors had received following the signing of the pact with Germany, and later, during the question period, told why he resigned from the Communist Party this fall...
...quarrel with the concept of the Communist Party that it is the responsibility of the Party to defend the foreign policy of the Soviet Union regardless of what it does. I have also very grave doubts about the policy of the Soviet Union itself. I think its present action is a betrayal of the World Revolution...