Word: murray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole, a victory for moderation and a defeat for demagoguery. The tone of the campaign in some parts of the country was thoroughly contemptible. And for this the man chiefly responsible is the Vice President of the United States. His use of the "Red" issue against men like Senator Murray of Montana and Mr. O'Mahoney of Wyoming, his imputation of "softness toward Communism" to the entire national leadership of the Democratic Party, his cynical manipulation of the issues of peace and war for partisan advantage, his reckless playing of the security "numbers game"-in all these things Nixon...
Labor unions, employer groups, and private foundations have made available the funds for the project. Emil Rieve, chairman of the Philip Murray Memorial Foundation, announced a $35,000 donation in a letter to President Pusey. Rieve said he believed a scholarly appraisal could make "a genuine contribution toward the understanding of current labor-management relations and provide valuable historical perspective on a number of issues of public policy...
Deciding that the contract was now "in the public interest," Democratic Commissioner Murray voted to go ahead with the signing. By a 10-8 party-line vote, the Joint Committee then waived a 30-day layover period required for such contracts. But the Democrats were by no means ready to admit defeat. Lyndon Johnson had cried that the next Congress, with New Mexico Democrat Clinton Anderson as Joint Committee chairman, would "expose Dixon-Yates, written in the dark of the moon, to some good New Mexican sunlight...
...have been reported as if the AEC were a bipartisan body, organized on political lines, or even as an arm of the Administration in power. For example: Chairman Strauss is now commonly identified in the press as "a Republican member" in contrast with Dr. Smyth, Mr. Zuckert and Mr. Murray, who were described as "the Democratic members...
Competing Managing Editor Ed Murray of the crime-loving Los Angeles Mirror disagreed: "The case has mystery, society, sex and glamour, but as a day-in-and-day-out story, it has been duller than dishwater." Many another newsman raised the question: Is the Sheppard case worth the space U.S. dailies are giving...