Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once upon a time there were three ambitious men in the United Mine Workers. John L. Lewis kicked out William Green, and then there were two. John L. Lewis had a falling out with Philip Murray and then there was one.
As the years passed, and the A.F.L.'s Green, the C.I.O.'s Murray and the miners' Lewis became the Big Three of U.S. labor, John L. Lewis never hesitated a second when he had a chance to chuck a cast-iron insult at his former brothers-in...
Soft & Low. This unremitting little mountain warfare was disturbed last week by a new voice from White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. It was soft and low, but it was the voice of John L. Lewis. He had a message for "the able Mr. Green." Making no mention of his own many...
To seal the grand alliance, Lewis proposed, the U.M.W. and nine affiliates of the A.F.L. should chip in $250,000 a week each to help Murray's 480,000 striking United Steelworkers ward off "a vast and barbaric attack" on their union.
"Impossible." Murray, deep in trouble, learned about Lewis' offer from newsmen and reacted to it with the air of a man who will believe it when he sees the color of Lewis' money. Aware of Lewis' insinuation that the Steelworkers could not fend for themselves, he said...