Word: stolberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pundit Henry Wallace, briefly interrupting his Third Party crusade for a picnic in Asbury Park, N.J., paired off with Congressional Candidate Sidney Stolberg in a game of old-fashioned Indian wrestling (see cut), won four straight falls...
...Cutter. Some of Sidney Hillman's journalistic biographers, notably the apostate leftist, Benjamin Stolberg, who profiled him in the Saturday Evening Post in 1940, insist that Hillman's sole talent is to coast along on the influence of his friends.* This is not wholly true, though Hillman indubitably has made his friendships work...
...latest book, a biography of Hillman's great needle trades rival, Dave Dubinsky, Stolberg calls Hillman "a typical ham Machiavelli who almost always outsmarts himself...
Also included are thumbnail sketches (written with fluoroscopic understanding of the trade-union mind) of many of Dubinsky's predecessors and contemporaries. Tailor's Progress is one of the few readable books about labor, due in part to Stolberg's lifelong familiarity with his subject, in part to his clearly thought-out philosophic position (he was Harvard-trained under Professor Emeritus of Philosophy William Ernest Hocking), which strengthens his thinking without getting in the way of his writing, in part to a gift for phrase typified by Stolberg's famed comment...
...right wing progressive union" which "would bring about the most far-reaching changes only within our democratic framework." Dubinsky, says Stolberg, is a social politician equal to his times. For he understood that "the New Deal signalized a drastic reorientation in our society. It marked a real break with the past. The old voluntaristic drives, the 'rugged individualism' of both capital and labor, had lost their momentum. ... In its original impulses the New Deal was an American variant of European collectivisms - trying to function within our traditional system. Labor is at the very center of this social revolution...