Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Phil Murray was busy at the negotiating table, but C.I.O. President Phil Murray had other troubles on his mind. For months Murray had been threatening stern measures against rebellious unions like the Communist-wired United Electrical Workers. Last week U.E., the C.I.O.'s biggest left-wing union, beat the C.I.O. chief to the punch. At its stormy 14th annual convention in Cleveland, the U.E.'s leadership made all but the final motions of breaking off from C.I.O. and forming a third association of U.S. labor unions, which would be Communist-controlled...
...United Rubber Workers of America. Fired from the presidency after a Pottstown, Pa. local president charged him with trying to disrupt the local and fomenting a riot at one of its meetings, Conservative Buckmaster cleared himself in a seven-hour debate at the union's annual convention, then beat his perennial rival, George Bass, for another term...
...Paris "I cried . . . cried, without tears. You understand?" What she means is that she bawled her songs. Even now, France's famed chanteuse needs no microphone; she sings out, nasally, a little as if she were singing through a papercovered comb. But with her infallible feel for beat and flow, Piaf fans find it pretty exciting...
...encouraging that the Harvard linemen will enjoy a ten-pound per man weight advantage over their opponents. But although the Lions are not so heavy as they were last year when Harvard beat them in Valpey's debut, Elmer Madar, who scouted the Amherst game, reported that they hit harder than they did a year...
Meanwhile at Fordham, the University decided to hold a fund-raising "beat polio" rally tomorrow night in place of the originally scheduled "beat Yale" rally...