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Although Saint Paul claimed that charity was the greatest of all virtues, such a wise man as he would never approve of providing charity where it did not belong. Encouraging people, most of whom are human waste, to make their living by panhandling is not virtuous; indeed, it is destructive and therefore evil. In view of the Harvard man's sophistication and supposed intelligence, it is ridiculous that he be regarded by professional beggars in this neighborhood as being the biggest sucker. Will you begin your career here by becoming the dupe of trained sympathy-provokers...
Although President Lombardo Toledano journeyed recently to Moscow and conferred with leaders of the Third International, last week he carefully had his F. L. A. W. announce solidarity not with the Third (Communist) International but with the Second (Socialist) International, to which most European labor leaders outside of Russia belong. While making it very plain that his presence was "purely unofficial," John L. Lewis, no Communist and no Socialist, felicitated Mexico for having in President Cárdenas a friend of Labor comparable to President Roosevelt, and declared of the F. L. A. W.: "I think the formation of this...
...life pension. They live a dormitory life the year round, have a physical examination before each performance, never have dinner until midnight, rarely associate with other than their fellow jai-alaiers. Topnotchers like Piston earn about $2,000 a month, the average player earns about $250. Latins all, they belong to the Spanish Association (controlling jai-alai body), pay 5% of their earnings toward pensions for their old age, which many of them never reach...
...Britain and Ireland have 1,041 trade unions, whose development began in 1825. The 5,308,000 members (as of 1936) are roughly one-third of the workers eligible. About half the unions are grouped, for purposes of collective bargaining, into 63 federations. Most of the unions thus federated belong to a Trades Union Congress (comparable...
Because Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Tydings both belong to the upper class their fight is the Purge's most bitter. Son of a marine engineer who worked at the Army's Aberdeen proving grounds, Millard Tydings became a mechanical engineer, studied law, practiced in Havre de Grace, enlisted as a private the day the U. S. entered the War. He came out a Lieutenant-Colonel...