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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clarence K. Streit [author of Union Now] with the first constructive plan to turn back the totalitarian tide...
Although soon Republicans were making their denunciations retroactive, insisting that Russia should never have been recognized in the first place ("Why all this tenderness toward Russia?" asked Herbert Hoover) the almost unanimous U. S. condemnation of Russia made it unlikely that the diplomatic steps taken could become an issue of domestic politics...
...Oregon, with first or second generation Finns, it looked as if Russia's invasion might influence labor politics. Voting was on in the potent International Woodworkers of America, with a battle revolving around President Harold Pritchett, able left-winger, ally of Harry Bridges, and like Bridges threatened with deportation. Stridently anti-Communist is the opposition in Portland, Ore. Because I.W.A.'s members are scattered in remote logging camps, balloting takes a month. There were only three days of voting left when the Russian invasion began, but out of the northwest camps to Portland's anti-Pritchett headquarters...
Last week was a busy one for Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt. For seven years the First Lady has left citizens bemused by her energy, her speeches, her candor, her clubs, her charities, her children, the range of her interests, the breadth of her sympathy, and the way she got around. She has been less like the traditional First Lady than like the busy mistress of some great estate, with the whole U. S. as the household. Upstairs, downstairs, morning to night, seven days a week, with never a cross word, she has noted spots of dust on the chandelier, the need...
...first astonished, then annoyed, then amused at her flying trips to coal mines and reclamation projects, has gradually settled back like some impressed but comfort-loving onlooker, to wonder how she found time...