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...TAILOR'S PROGRESS-Benjamin Stolberg-Doubleday, Doran...
...whom New York Times Reviewer John Chamberlain calls "one of the great journalists of our times" has written one of the most important books about U.S. labor. Benjamin Stolberg's Tailor's Progress is a history of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (I.L.G. W.U.-membership: 310,000), a keen commentary on U.S. social politics, a detailed, sometimes brilliant biography of an outstanding social politician, I.L.G.W.U.'s President David Dubinsky...
...Have Met the Enemy. . . ." It had not been so cut & dried at first, while other hopefuls still had hope. Handsome John Bricker, tailor-fresh in a blue tropical suit, arrived in town to the strains of Beautiful Ohio from his own brass band. But three days later, jarred to the heels when Illinois caucused and threw its strength to Dewey, the Bricker forces held a desperate eleventh-hour strategy meeting...
...when the Naval Uniform shop can't get our whites here on time for graduation, and their grays split every time we bend over, we must have new leadership. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party and put Sam the Tailor at the helm. (This is not paid advertising; we just like...
...little to uplift Cuba's sugar-sick economy, uproot its age-old graft. But Batista began to curry civilian support. He encouraged opposition, pardoned political prisoners, even legalized the Communist Party. He cultivated culture. He took up smart squash-tennis (though he preferred cock-fighting), got a tailor, elbowed a way into Havana society, polished his pronunciation. He began to think of legitimizing his power. In 1940 he ran for the Presidency against his old revolutionary comrade, Grau San Martin. Batista won by a neat majority, which his opponents said was stacked by the Army...