Word: hillmanism
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...policy makers carefully avoided any commitments on a Fourth Term for Franklin Roosevelt. President Philip Murray blamed the President and Congress equally for the raw deal that labor leaders insist that labor has been getting, added bluntly: "I don't like Washington as it is today." Agile Sidney Hillman, chairman of the new committee for political action, hedged with a prudent : "We will make our commitment...
...plans laid last week will shove U.S. labor deeper into politics than ever before. Sidney Hillman, making a comeback after his unhappy experience as a Government official in OPM, won the consent of all 40 C.I.O. unions to draft all the men he wants. Henceforth he can reach into any union, pick out the best administrative, research, publicity or speechmaking talent...
Under the Connally-Smith-Harness act, Hillman cannot give any C.I.O. money to party campaign chests. But he can spend what he likes-with an eye to the Hatch Act limitation of $3,000,000 for any one committee in any one campaign-in his own private efforts to elect candidates who look good to C.I.O. As a founder of New York's American Labor Party, which delivered 300,000 votes to Roosevelt in 1936 and 417,000 in 1940, he knows the business on a small scale. He has a rich field to work in: besides C.I.O...
...Brigadier General Charles Clark Hillman of the Surgeon General's office, who recently returned from the Southwest Pacific, concluded his talk with a significant hint that experiments to find a new antimalaria drug are bearing fruit...
Married. Philoine Hillman, 24, daughter of Amalgamated Clothing Workers' President Sidney Hillman; and Milton Fried, 27, Columbia graduate student; in Manhattan...