Word: murray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Phil Murray's steelworkers had no other choice but to put on their hats and go home. Organized labor, preparing wage demands on a dozen other fronts, wondered with mixed emotions if the spiral was being reversed...
Hoffman had another appointment just about ready to announce. He had picked Clinton S. Golden, onetime machinist, vice president of Phil Murray's United Steelworkers, writer and lecturer on labor problems and labor adviser to the U.S. mission to Greece, to be ECA's adviser on labor affairs. The two most important appointments-deputy administrator and ECA's ambassador-at-large were still to be made...
Supporters of both the Army-Reclamation Bureau project and the MVA have been fighting it out ever since 1944. In August of that year, when Senator James Murray of Montana introduced a bill to set up an MVA, governors in eight of the nine Missouri Basin states came out cautiously for Army flood control proposals and the Reclamation Bureau's plans for irrigation development. In November, the Army and the Reclamation Bureau (headed by Major General Lewis Pick and W. G. Sloan) joined forces in a compromise; Senator Murray promptly accused them of hastening their agreement just to thwart...
...billion dollar Flood Control Act signed by President Roosevelt in December, 1944, 400 million was carmarked for the Missouri River. Since all construction was to wait for the war's end, there was still a chance that MVA could be set up to do the administering. Murray brought his bill in to the new Congress in February, 1945, but there it was effectively snagged in a web of hostile committees. On the outside, opposition to MVA was sparked by private power companies, the coal industry, and conservative Mid Westerners fearful of what was termed "New Deal socialism...
...completely eliminated from my mind the erroncous idea that TVA was of a socialistic, regimenting, paternalistic character, dabbling in social service, character-building, folk dancing and other foreign fields," he said. But President Truman's original enthusiasm for MVA was waning, and Congress was happy to let the controversial Murray Bill gather dust...