Word: murray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best symbolized labor's posture in midsummer 1949 was C.I.O. President Phil Murray. As anxious as any labor leader to get what he could for his steelworkers, Murray was in no mood for a strike at this time. After all, steel production was already beginning to exceed demands. The solution he found last week was one that would probably become familiar: turn everything over to labor's good friend, the President. Harry Truman, unable to deliver on his promise to repeal Taft-Hartley, was anxious to be helpful in every...
With no compelling reason to compromise and with production outrunning demand, the steel industry might prove as agreeable as the coal industry to a shutdown that would use up customers' stockpiles. Knowing this, steel union leaders were likely to walk cautiously, but CIO President Philip Murray showed no sign of backing down. This week, after getting both sides into a huddle Federal Mediation Director Cyrus S. Ching told President Truman that they were hopelessly deadlocked. Murray said this could mean only one thing, strike. Apparently, he was putting his chips on the hope of last-minute intervention...
...make his own preliminary investigation of the city. He discussed his impressions with the members of the Los Angeles bureau, who then set to work digging out the facts. Bureau Chief Fritz Goodwin divided the coverage four ways between himself and reporters Alfred Wright, Edwin Rees and James Murray. It was an especially engrossing assignment for all of them because it gave them a chance to pull together the story they had been reporting in bits and pieces for so long a time...
Angeles had been exploded and thaf he had gained a fresh and more accurate impression of the city and its people. Murray, a native of Hartford, Conn., spent part of his time reconciling discrepancies and disagreements among historians about early Los Angeles, the remainder covering earnest, hardworking Mayor Bowron...
...Locke, Murray Sanford of 31 Seekell Street, Providence, R. I.; Classical High, Providence. Lovett, John Richard Patrick of 96 Sayles Avenue, Pascoag, R. I.; Burrillville High, Harrisville, R. I. McFee. Arthur Storer of 93 Pine Street, Portland, Me.; Deering High, Portland. McMurtrie, Richard Lempereur of Bellevue Place, Gorham, N. H.; Mt. Hermon School, Mt. Hermon, Mass. Mello, Robert Charles of 32-43 32nd Street, Long Island City, N. Y.; Phillips Exter Academy, Exeter, N. H. Nebel, Harry Thomas of 129 Jamaica Avenue, West View, Pa.; Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass...