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...joined the fledgling Comintern, the external arm of the Bolshevik Revolution. Over the next 15 years the P.C.F. developed into a faithful replica of its Soviet parent. The first real opportunity for Communist-Socialist cooperation came in 1936 with the Popular Front government of Socialist Léon Blum. The Communists officially refused to take part in the short-lived Front because the Socialists were the dominant force. But the party tacitly supported such Blum reforms as sponsorship of the 40-hour work week and collective bargaining...
Others head for employment agencies like Career Personnel Inc., in Southfield, where Owner Stanley Blum is doing a "phenomenal" business preparing resumes for people seeking jobs down South. Perhaps the only business doing better than placement agencies is the moving trade. United Van Lines transported 533 households from Michigan to Texas in 1980, up from 293 the year before. UHaul's one-way southbound traffic in rental trucks has been so brisk that it creates chronic shortages up North...
...constitute a conspiracy against justice and peace." Islamic Conference Secretary-General Habib Chatti of Tunisia raised the possibility of suspending Israel's U.N. membership "if it continued to ignore the decisions of the organization and refused to evacuate the occupied Arab territories." For his part, Israeli Ambassador Yehuda Blum denounced the emergency session as a "grotesque farce" and called the P.L.O. "a linchpin of the terrorist international." When he rose to speak, practically all the Arab delegates left the Assembly chamber...
...writings include The Republican Roosevelt, The National Experience, The Promise of America and works on Henry Morgenthau, Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and Henry A. Wallace. Blum, who received both a masters and doctorate from Harvard, once wrote that "within the rhyme and meter of American history, I have made men the subject of my first concern...
John Morton Blum '43, historian and Woodward professor of American history at Yale University--Doctor of Laws...