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...York Times Labor Analyst A. H. Raskin: European unionists, reared in the Socialist tradition, always wonder why United States labor is so enthusiastic about a competitive economic system. The settlement at Ford should help supply the answer. The principal factor in Ford's decision was its desire to stay out in front in the race for mastery of the low-price automobile field. Reuther avoided the slogans of class warfare that were so much a part of the union's formative years two decades ago. The company was equally careful not to maneuver itself into...
Shortly before he gathered most of his clan (5 children, 15 grandchildren) at his Long Island home for his 70th birthday party, the unblinking beacon of U.S. Socialism, Norman Thomas, loosed a flood of thoughts and recollections for veteran New York Timesman A. H. Raskin. No longer a perennial also-ran (six defeats) for the U.S. presidency, roving Lecturer-Writer-Committeeman Thomas had lost none of his tongue's facile sharpness. Eying the rigors of a world toying with the idea of "peaceful coexistence" (he calls it "competitive coexistence"), Thomas placed his bet on the West: "Our democracy...
Seller's Market. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Sidney Raskin, after charging her husband $5 each for kisses, sued for divorce...
Like many another soldier, Staff Sergeant Robert Raskin did not want to worry the folks back home. So he wrote to his wife in The Bronx that he had a nice safe job: switchboard operator in the Quartermaster Corps...
Last week BBC's New York office notified Mrs. Raskin that her husband was about to participate in a broadcast from England. She listened in, learned more about the "safe" job of Sergeant Raskin: as a gunner in a B-17 he had flown 64 missions over Germany, had shot down three Nazi planes, won the DFC and Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters...