Word: murray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steelworkers' Philip Murray could scarcely have been more overbearing. Jubilant over the presidential fact finders' recommendations that steel operators pay their workers up to 10? an hour for an insurance and pension program (TIME, Sept. 19), he wired U.S. Steel's austere President Benjamin Fairless: "Promptly and plainly advise me whether your companies are likewise willing to accept the recommendations of the board as a basis [for] settlement...
...that moment there had been good reason to hope for an early settlement. The board had denied a wage boost. Steel operators had been pleasantly surprised by the moderation of the board's recommendations. They were ready to sit down and talk when Phil Murray sounded his trumpet. Murray, in effect, was demanding that steel accept the board's recommendations first and bargain afterwards...
Fairless blew off like a Bessemer converter. Did Murray think he could take him by the nose and lead him to a contract? Promptly and plainly he told Murray off. He would negotiate, but with no commitment in advance to accept anything. That was the basis on which Fairless had agreed to meet with the fact finders in the first place; the board itself had reiterated that details should be worked out in company-by-company bargaining. If that didn't suit Murray, then a steel shutdown would be on Murray's head. Up to that point Fairless...
Even as the one new thing around, Ken Murray's vaudeville is by no means a treat. Part of its fantastic Hollywood success may stem, indeed, from its being just the kind of flesh & blood show a movie metropolis can condescend...
Blackouts isn't without talent of sorts, but it is utterly without cispness or taste. The show (with cigar-chewing Murray as M.C.) is informal to the point of sloppiness, as though the only alternative to a boiled shirt were an egg-stained vest. And as nothing is too vulgar for Blackouts, so nothing is too venerable-one of its borrowed skits helped make Fannie Brice famous...