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Norman Thomas, 60, good, greying, five-time Socialist Party candidate for President, pondering the meaning of his fifth defeat, saw no future for the Socialist Party, as a political force, predicted that "America is on the road to fascism, or a variant of fascism," prophesied that a coalition of progressive labor, farm, and regional groups (e.g., the New York Liberals and Wisconsin Progressives) was the U.S.'s only hope. Said Thomas: "That rules out, to take an extreme case, Sidney Hillman, or any such labor leader...
...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. It furnished the mass base for the New Deal." Though he later broke with C.I.O., Dubinsky played a big part in furnishing this mass base for Franklin Roosevelt ("the greatest labor...
...These by Th. Nöldeke, History of the Koran, Göttingen, 1860, for the first time put forward basic views on the language of the Koran are in K. Voller's Spoken and Written Language in Ancient Arabia, Strasbourg, 1906, by the wrong assumption, that the variant readings of the later Koran scholars, instead of [being] peculiarities of different dialects, rather only those of the original Koran language reflected, exaggerated, and distorted...
...years ago the State of New York stood ready to execute a hammered-down, jug-eared little blackmailer, labor racketeer and murderer called Lepke (Yiddish affectionate variant of Louis) Buchalter...
Evidence for Chandrasekhar's picture of the primordial universe, published in the Astrophysical Journal, is abstrusely mathematical. It depends on such data as 1) the relative abundance of the isotopes (variant forms) of the elements, 2) the relative quantities of the elements themselves throughout the universe, 3) the relations among the fundamental particles-protons, neutrons, etc.-of which the elements are composed...