Word: guilds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reutherites were still not satisfied. Murray made a diplomat's gambit. He appointed a committee to draw up a resolution which would satisfy the right wing and not offend the left. The six-man committee was delicately balanced. From the right wing: Reuther; Milton Murray* of the Newspaper Guild; onetime Socialist Emil Rieve of the textile workers; from the left: the furriers' Communist boss, Ben Gold; red-hot Michael Quill of the transport workers, who has been denying for years that he is a Communist; the white-collar workers' pink Abram Flaxer. All that weary Phil Murray...
...restaurateurs grumbled at the rush of unwanted customers, all of them in a hurry. The customers, who were theatergoers in search of a quick dinner between the acts of The Iceman Cometh, grumbled too. Result: prospects of a long run for The Iceman grew grey. Last week the Theatre Guild and Playwright Eugene O'Neill decided that henceforth The Iceman would start at 7:30 p.m., instead of 5:30; there would be no dinner intermission...
Lowell; le, Mack; lt, Green, Spora; lg, Marble, Frye; c, Brock, Guild; rg, D. Thomson, Richardson; rt, Silver; re, Kaelber, P. Thomson; backs, Bowditch, Wales, Briggs, Smith, Ayres, Allard, Heller...
...week's end it was plain that the Guild was bucking a hardened (or at least a fed-up) Stern. Record and Courier-Post executives rolled up their sleeves, got out the papers themselves...
Stern stood pat on his offer of a, 12% general increase. Said he sternly: "Since 1936 ... we have had a gun pointed at our head, in the shape of a strike threat, at every Guild negotiation. This year, the gun was not only pointed but cocked before we even sat down...