Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somewhere, after the birth of our second child, there came that shadow of a doubt. We couldn't help questioning the sanity of the whole extravaganza. Has any set of parents the right to deprive a child of the privilege of planting a row of beans that will grow without irrigation? ... Of knowing a brook, and a field, and a hill intimately? Of picking fat, juicy blackberries...
...mention of segregation and equal rights in the same breath seems to me a mistake. And the mistaken impression that it is impossible to have both at the same time is one of the biggest causes of present racial troubles. If I divide my apple with a Negro but refuse to let him bite off my half, I give him an equal right but at the same time I keep segregation. I can't believe an intelligent Negro would object or feel discriminated against...
Reuther swung into action. Telegram after telegram was read to the convention from Ford locals, reporting overwhelming votes in favor of a strike against Ford. Despite the fact that the "news" was weeks old, the delegates roared applause after each reading. When the pitch was right, Reuther asked them to give his executive board authority to levy a special $1-a-week-for-twelve-weeks strike assessment on all employed U.A.W. members. From their seats behind long, banquet-like tables, the delegates shouted approval. It meant a war chest of some $10 million...
...President came right back. He did not invoke the national emergency sections of Taft-Hartley, he said, because there was no "immediate peril" with so much steel around. His idea was to find a solution before matters reached a critical state. Said the President: "Surely you are not afraid to have your side of this dispute examined in the public interest." Again, Fairless & Co. refused the presidential request...
...past years had dwindled to a whisper. The delegates re-elected him by a 12-to-1 vote, installed Reuther men in every important post. They also shouted themselves hoarse when Reuther introduced a friend he had invited along, Representative Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. Young Roosevelt laid it right on the line. He said: "I feel more like a brother. I not only am glad to be here; I belong here...