Word: counciling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maverick. Last week David Dubinsky climbed on a train and headed for the A.F.L. Executive Council meeting in Toronto. As usual, A.F.L. elders received him warily. At 57, Dubinsky is a brash youth and a maverick among the chieftains of the council, who clung to isolationism as long as they dared, who had backed reluctantly into political action and who once regarded unemployment insurance as dangerously socialistic...
Four days later, the eleven aging paladins emerged from the council rooms with something of the look of driven elephants. Beaming at their heels came Dave Dubinsky. The A.F.L., President William Green announced, would send five delegates to a London meeting in the fall to establish a new world federation of free labor. For Dubinsky and his friends, it was a full victory after a determined four-year fight...
...late. (Some people thought it was really ten years late, or ten centuries.) In a solemn procession led by parliamentary messengers, who looked like headwaiters except for their chains of office, walked France's mastiff-faced Edouard Herriot. He climbed the rostrum, opened the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe...
...Foreign Ministry went to the Christian Socialists' staunchest Leopoldist, ex-Premier Paul van Zeeland. Almost continuously for the past 13 years the Foreign Affairs portfolio had been held by the Socialists' able Paul Henri-Spaak, who last week became president of the Council of Europe's Consultative Assembly. Commented a Belgian newspaper: "Lost for Belgium but won for Europe...
...loyalty to the U.S. that is really in question. It is, rather, loyalty to reaction-loyalty, I am convinced in my case, to the ideas of the National Association of Manufacturers. For the record - I am not loyal to many of their ideas. And I never will be." The council of Sweets's union, the Radio & Television Directors' Guild, unanimously passed a resolution condemning his "forced" resignation, because "a man's talent and ability should be the sole cri teria by which he is judged for employment." At the same time two other Guild members, Marx Loeb...