Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cosmetics. It has $2,500,000 in its treasury -after contributing $500,000 to the National Democratic Committee in 1936, spending $550,000 on elegant new quarters in Washington and lending $2,000,000 to the C. I. O. and its various affiliates. Its vice president is Chairman Philip Murray of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, its secretary-treasurer is Lieut. Governor Thomas Kennedy of Pennsylvania and its president is the most potent labor leader...
...throw mud. This mud cannot help spattering the University and sullying its name in the academic field. Glenn Frank, for instance, may be a fine politician, and a great discovery for the Republican Party, but his activities did not redound to the advantage of Wisconsin. Nor do Nicholas Murray Butler's annual speeches to the economic royalists in Southampton add to the credit of Columbia...
Deal satellites, onetime braintruster Adolf Augustus Berle Jr.. President Charles Taussig of American Molasses Co. of New York (present employer of Rexford Guy Tugwell) and Philip Murray, able chairman of C.I.O.'s Steel Workers Organizing...
Spectacled, wide-mouthed George Denny, who acknowledges as his chief inspiration Nicholas Murray Butler, says he bars stuffed shirts and academicians from his programs. He also says he would rather put on Author Will Durant than Philosopher John Dewey. He admits his debates supply listeners with little information but conceives his role as that of stimulator. Mr. Denny wants his 3,000,000 auditors to be open-minded above all. An indefatigable user of hair tonics, bald Mr. Denny...
...more than receive, dispatch and open the lids of the greasy carriers for the postal employes. Their wages are the same as Government postal laborers-about $32 weekly-but their week is 60 hours instead of 40 hours. This, says the company's Vice President George J. Murray, is not what "President Roosevelt believes workmen should have." Only difficulty is that the $1,700 a day his company pany receives from the P. 0. is not enough to provide the $135,000 annual addition to the payroll that shorter hours would entail. In place of the present contract...