Word: kaufmans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harris was shrewd, hardboiled, but not a producer who ate playwrights and actors alive. He got along with them. About his productions he was superfinical, but not primarily for art's sake; being finical seemed to pay. When he brought the airy satire of George S. Kaufman to Broadway his thoughts were not on the improvement of the theater's breed but on the box office. In Depression, when he was putting on shows like Of Thee I Sing, he cannily observed: "People like to find that they can laugh at important things and institutions...
...long believed that their union was run by a Red clique, and last week a big enough group got together to make that clique fight for its political life. At the eighth annual convention of the American News paper Guild in Detroit's Book-Cadillac Hotel, the Milton Kaufman-Nat Einhorn-Victor Pasche group, baited as Reds, saved its neck by a few votes, but got only a reprieve till...
...issue of Communism had been dramatized a fortnight earlier, when Ex ecutive Vice President Milton Kaufman defied C.I.O. President Philip Murray and United Automobile Workers President R. J. Thomas in giving Guild support to the army-settled strike at North American Aviation...
Defeated by only 11 votes out of 171 cast was a minority report characterizing the Guild Reporter as "concerned definitely with the promulgation of Communist Par ty line." By only 12 votes was Executive Vice President Milton Kaufman saved from having to apologize to U.A.W. President Thomas for butting into the North American strike. By only 10¼ votes was the Kaufman-Einhorn-Pasche machine allowed to stay in office...
...battle came far toward dawn of the fifth day. The anti-administration group produced a bombshell in the form of an affidavit, signed by Ferdinand Lundberg (America's 60 Families), declaring that Milton Kaufman had been a Communist Party member for eight years, had written for the Daily Worker under the name "Milton Kay." Kaufman flatly denied the charge. The big New York Guild, which contains 4,000 of the Guild's claimed 17,000 present members, voted solidly, giving him an official vote of confidence and a noisy demonstration...