Word: murray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ears, the C.I.O. delegates made big political plans. After pausing long enough to throw a scare into the Reds in their midst (see below), they talked of farmer-labor unity, discussed Government housing programs, price control, civil rights, medical insurance and federal aid to education. Said C.I.O. President Philip Murray: "We will obtain enactment of many important pieces of humanitarian legislation...
...Phil Murray did it at last. For a long time, his right-wing followers have been demanding that he rid the 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...
Correspondents Martin O'Neill and Jim Murray talked to scores of Oppenheimer's former associates and students on the Pacific Coast...
...became something unique in American labor-a regional prince whose power and interests extended far beyond the confines of labor and into the entire life of his community. Unlike Walter Reuther, Phil Murray and John Lewis, he had no yearnings to become a political power, or to take part in plotting a political labor party. The demands of his own principality, where he was supreme, were enough to occupy his time...
Wasting no time in the third period, Dunster, sparked by the powerful line play of guards Tom O'Shea and Jake Nackshian and center Bob Kelly rolled down the field on its bucks and power pushes. Murray Pearlstein burst over center from the 12 and scored standing up, but the extra point buck again failed. A wild passing spree failed to help Lowell in the closing minutes of the game...