Word: murray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco, Phil Murray's hatchetman Allan Haywood delivered the bad news to Red-eyed Harry Bridges: he was fired as a C.I.O. regional director for refusing to go along with Murray's policy of opposing Henry Wallace's third party. Australia-born Harry Bridges' grip on about 75,000 longshoremen was not affected. But he was expecting more bad news -another attempt to deport...
Back in Washington something had indeed turned up. But it was hardly reassuring. At C.I.O. headquarters a wan Phil Murray and P.A.C.'s beady-eyed boss, Jack Kroll, were holding a conference calculated to undo the soothing effects of Mr. Truman's vacation. They were not ready to make any public statement. But Murray and Kroll, so the Washington rumor ran, had met to devise some way by which Mr. Truman could be persuaded to withdraw as a candidate for re-election -and consider whom they could get to run on the Democratic ticket instead...
...average (20.9 points a game) is now 1-10th of a point under that of Iowa's Murray Wier, who has completed the season. Tonight is Lavelli's last chance to move into the runner-up slot...
...Murray Hill. Next day things were different; the third party's leaders were among friends. Happily they journeyed back to Manhattan to preside over the official opening of their headquarters in a brownstone mansion on lower Park Avenue, just an indignant glance from the Union League Club...
...sedate old Murray Hill house was built in 1863, its walls rumored to be bulletproofed against Civil War draft rioters. George S. Bowdoin, a partner of J. P. Morgan, acquired it some 20 years later. In its backyard is a cemetery with eight weathered headstones-one for each of the chow dogs buried there by Bowdoin's spinster daughter, Edith, who died five years ago. What was left of gilt and ormolu in the house glistened under new fluorescent lights. Businesslike desks, clacking typewriters and paid workers crowded the high-ceilinged chambers...