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Speaking for the Civil Liberties Union, Mrs. Kenneth B. Murdock said that the organization feared the sneak-through passage of the other three concurrently pending bills "quite as insidious" as the Barnes legislation itself and would consequently concentrate efforts in rounding up opposition speakers Monday upon morning hearings concerning H1597, the "Little Dies" bill...
...Denham might find it hard to get along with some of his board members. One of the new appointees was Utah's ex-Senator Abe Murdock, a down-the-line New Dealer to whom three G.O.P. committeemen strongly objected. The other was New York's J. Copeland Gray, a liberal Republican and up-the-ladder veteran of the Wage Stabilization Board and the Regional War Labor Board. The committee vote on him: 9-to-3. Gray's proudest boast: in 17 years as labor expert for Houdaille-Hershey's Buffalo subsidiaries (shock absorbers and firearms...
Left & Right. The whole board, businessmen grumbled, had a decidedly pro-union cast. As businessmen saw it, Murdock would join ex-Kansas Congressman John M. Houston away over on the left; Gray would join young, earnest Chairman Paul M. Herzog, protege of New York's Senator Robert F. Wagner, a little to the left. Only Old Member James J. Reynolds Jr., brother of beefy Newsman Quentin Reynolds, would be on the right...
Among the existing period courses, however, the American literature picture is especially well covered, with Matthiessen, Miller, and Murdock all presenting penetrating and stimulating courses. Levin is topnotch on drama, comparative literature, and criticism...
...Murdock sharply attacked current "anti-labor legislation," stating that such laws, if passed, would cripple the labor movement. "The right to strike is something labor has fought for and must continue to fight for," he pointed...