Word: lee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...C.I.O. of Reds. During the 1946 convention, the right-wingers rammed through a resolution formally damning all Communistic activities. A sick and uncertain Murray gave only cautious approval. A few months later he called labor agents who peddled the Communist line "goddam traitors," and kicked Harvard-bred Lee Pressman, a notorious Communist-liner, out of the job of C.I.O. counsel. From that point on, Phil Murray grew bolder. Some believe that he even helped push that old bibber of Red propaganda, Michael Quill, boss of the transport workers, into taking the pledge...
Then last week, at the loth annual C.I.O. convention in Portland, Ore., a rejuvenated, shouting Murray sent the Reds scampering for cover like scared rats. Lee Pressman was in town, but as far as most of the delegates knew, he might have spent the time hiding under a bed. It looked as if the C.I.O. was free at last to put up an honest, strictly trade-unionist front...
...Moritz is State consultant of medical examiners and also Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Legal Medicine...
...Harvard's sacrosanct Varsity Club, the Harvard first team sipped champagne-an old pre-game ritual. By tradition, the first toast is given by the captain of the last Harvard team to whip Yale (Fran Lee of the '41 team). But Lee failed to show up, and a substitute was pressed into service. It may have been a favorable omen. Next afternoon, on the first play of the game, a crimson-shirted Harvard halfback cut back through tackle and raced 80 yards to a touchdown...
Samuel Chamberlain, author of "Fair Harvard," Richard W. Cartwright of the Boston Club, and Gyorgy Kepes, professor of visual design at MIT, will head the judges panel. The other two judges are Mrs. Lee Ellis and James Brook noted Boston amateurs...