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...father a Kansas homesteader and schoolteacher. Browder began as a good capitalist apparatchik-a department store cashboy at the age of nine. He joined the fledgling party in the early 1920s after serving two jail sentences for "conspiring" to resist the draft during World War I. An active trade-union organizer, he was sent by the party to Moscow and China as a union delegate. Upon his return in 1929, he was named party chief when the two leading factions were split...
Glassboro was chosen as the site of their two-day talks for reasons of protocol-it was equidistant from Washington and New York City. *One small but possibly telling portent occurred last week. The trade-union newspaper Trud reported that a much ballyhooed Siberian power generator supposedly put in service five years ago had in fact burned out at the factory and never been installed. Western economic analysts could not recall a case of similar candor...
...detail for a House subcommittee the Nixon Administration's minimum-wage bil−and with that single appearance, Brennan provoked a maxi-split with his old colleagues in the union movement. Said AFL-CIO President George Meany: "We are aghast that Brennan has so completely abandoned the trade-union principles he espoused for all of his life before coming to Washington." Jerry Wurf, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, was more succinct. Brennan, he said, was "a son of a bitch...
Speaking to a trade-union group in Jerusalem, the Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel, Shlomo Goren, demanded that Israel "uproot this affliction. There is nothing antidemocratic about such legislation, and decent people of all faiths will support it." About the last point the rabbi is partly right, since most established Christian groups have little use for the Jews for Jesus and other overzealous evangelists. In a letter to the Jerusalem Post, Franciscan Father Joseph Cremona, who has lived in Israel for 30 years, protested the missionaries' efforts. "I am not here to suggest that the government curb missionary activity...
...into the law," his progress was almost inevitable. His father was a real-estate lawyer in Brooklyn; young Boudin spent his Saturdays clipping law journals in his father's office. Following law school at St. John's, he joined his uncle's firm, which specialized in trade-union cases. He had just set up his own practice when the cold war started, and Boudin undertook to defend union clients against charges of Communist influence. Did he have ideological reasons? "Not at all," he says. "I not only was never a Communist but I was never a radical...