Word: roosevelt
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Dubinsky became president of I.L.G.W.U. (TIME, June 22, 1932) and, as the New Deal came along, publicly renounced his membership in the Socialist party and became a staunch supporter of Franklin Roosevelt (TIME, May 11, 1936). An advocate of industrial unionism, he removed his union from the craft-unionized A.F.L. (TIME, Sept. 14, 1936) and joined the C.I.O. However, he also believed strongly in a unified labor movement and, when the obstinacy of John L. Lewis made peace between C.I.O. and A.F.L. impossible, he denounced Lewis in open forum (TIME, Jan. 24, 1938). Then Dubinsky led I.L.G.W.U...
Bewildered Candidate. Every so often, between the jazz records, the loudspeaker would blare out a four-minute record: "This is Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.... I appeal to you to vote for ... a brave mother of a brave son . . . Bob Coffey and I had a lot in common. We believed in progressive, democratic government . . . We were veterans together." Mrs. Curry Ethel Coffey, who used to work in the millinery department of Johnston's largest department store and had never been in politics before, was now travelling through the mined-out towns and hilly farmlands of the 26th Pennsylvania congressional district...
With something more than his customary charity, Columnist Pegler conceded that this lapse was not all her fault: "In Atlanta, she was ... under the influence of an unwise, emotional apologist, Ralph McGill, the editor of the Atlanta Constitution, an insensate Roosevelt-lover who undoubtedly had swayed many inferior minds . . . and deprived others...
...Pegler column in its usual space, appended a tolerant editorial note: "We often get a bang out of some of Mr. Pegler's strange obsessions . . . Somehow it was not at all surprising to find him . . . using [Miss Mitchell's] death as a vehicle for rebuking the Roosevelts. We knew [her] well enough to know she made up her own mind . . . Certainly she would not [have been] swayed by the influence of an unwise, emotional Westbrook Pegler, an insensate Roosevelt-hater, whose column [may] have swayed and-deprived inferior minds...
...Deal bureaucrat, felt "as if this death were a sword that he must take to his bosom, slowly, inch by inch." John's neglected wife Ellen suffered no such heroic tortures. A rich woman who had married John when he was a poor college instructor, she called Roosevelt "That Man." Her grief was of another kind. The Gregorys' son Timmy had been killed in the war and for that tragedy she split the blame between the President and her husband, who had refused to use his influence to keep Timmy out of the draft...