Word: murray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual, however, eyes were on steel, always the pacemaker in industrial settlements. Despite the handicap of a two-year contract, a cut in steel prices, and a no-strike clause, the steelworkers' Phil Murray was still bargaining for all he was worth. Last week he announced that negotiations had taken a new tack. A program of insurance, hospitalization and retirement benefits was under discussion. It would cost the steel companies the equivalent of a 9.6?-an-hour pay increase...
Would he be as religious-minded as his predecessor, Nicholas Murray Butler? Said Eisenhower: "I am one of the most intensely religious people I've ever known. That doesn't mean that I necessarily adhere to any particular sect . . ."*Was he planning to make any drastic changes? Replied Ike carefully: "I hope to become a useful member of the community, of which, frankly, I have always been frightened. It is going to be quite a task for me. I have nothing to say about education. I don't know enough about it. Right...
...John Murray Forbes of Boston made a fortune in China before he was 24. Back home again, he built the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, acted as a Lincoln secret agent in the Civil War, and in 1885 opened a school near Boston. He called it Milton Academy, after the town, and after a school that had once flourished there. Last week Milton gave a dignified party to celebrate its "150th" anniversary...
Died. Kate La Montagne Butler, 82, widow of Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler (who died last December); after long illness; in Manhattan...
...mother or aunt of 20 years ago. The inclusion of girls in lectures, while perhaps discomfiting the monitoring system, has produced no real complaints on this side of the Common. "It's just a case of the marginal student being sacrificed to the marginal Radcliffe girl," comments David Murray, Jr. '47, a Senior whose curriculum has included a fistful of joint courses...