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Dubinsky became president of I.L.G.W.U. (TIME, June 22, 1932) and, as the New Deal came along, publicly renounced his membership in the Socialist party and became a staunch supporter of Franklin Roosevelt (TIME, May 11, 1936). An advocate of industrial unionism, he removed his union from the craft-unionized A.F.L. (TIME, Sept. 14, 1936) and joined the C.I.O. However, he also believed strongly in a unified labor movement and, when the obstinacy of John L. Lewis made peace between C.I.O. and A.F.L. impossible, he denounced Lewis in open forum (TIME, Jan. 24, 1938). Then Dubinsky led I.L.G.W.U...
When the military appropriation bill came up last week, Arkansas' dark and taciturn John McClellan proposed a rider directing the President to cut all money measures by at least 5%, and a maximum of 10%. Amidst bellows from Administration leaders that this was a "sham and pretense," to say nothing of an inglorious surrender of Congress' control of the national purse, McClellan's resolution went down...
...Papers. Like most Englishmen, Chapman had supposed that Singapore would never fall. He was sent behind the Jap lines in Malaya to organize and train native guerrilla fighters. When Singapore was taken, he and a few other Britons were trapped. Chapman was one of a handful that survived. He came through because he was tough and knew life in the wilderness (in 1937, he had become the first man to scale the 23,930-ft. peak of Chomolhari in the Himalayas, was already a famed Arctic explorer), because he had a sense of humor, and because he kept himself busy...
...with his ex-secretary in Washington soon had him chinning himself on his own self-confidence. He would get a job as a teacher and he and Ellen would enter middle age with their human dignity and refurbished love intact. But meanwhile Ellen was going quietly insane. When he came to take her from her ancestral home and the in-laws he despised, she tried to choke him to death. Gregory went away "waiting for a direction, for the blasting and blinding miracle which could teach him how to love...
When the successful revolt against Ronca came, it was thanks to the alliance of Don Ricardo's liberals and the Communists. But Don Ricardo wondered what the Communists would do if they got the cabinet posts they demanded, especially the police ministry. In the end, with troubled Carlos at his side, he drove in the darkness to make a deal with what was left of the old Ronquistas, the dictator's former followers...