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That career had started more than 40 years before in a Czarist cell, where he had been jailed for revolutionary activities. Son of a Lithuanian merchant, grandson of a rabbi, he migrated from Russia to England and thence...
...established during the past year in recognition of outstanding ability and promise among students whose education was interrupted by the war, and are open to veterans of the armed forces of the United Nations, to former members of the American Field Service, and to veterans of the United States Merchant Marine...
Einstein's father was an unsuccessful merchant turned unsuccessful electrical engineer...
...A.V.C. accepted as members men & women from all World War II armed services, in & out of uniform, and from the Merchant Marine. It had plumped noisily for FEPC, OPA, the minimum-wage bill, federal housing subsidies, other allied issues. From inside & out it had been damned as Communistic, boosted as liberal, dismissed as just another fly-by-night collection of hotheads. Even its leaders admitted they didn't know what the rank & file thought...
Then would be the time to strike, when the U.S. merchant marine was fighting for its place on the sea. Then the workers of the world might be roused to unite and the arm of U.S. international policy paralyzed. The ruckus stirred up last week by Joe Curran and Harry Bridges showed what might be done. Other men also had dreams...