Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disarming state ments as: "But I don't know a thing about economics!" This is her new post as chairwomen of the Committee on Election of the President she may suddenly get something to do before long was suggested last week by Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler who prophesied in London that in 1940 there will be four Presidential candidates deadlocked, possibly throwing the vote for President into the House...
...Mediation Board made one last effort-an appeal to the steelmen to talk to John L. Lewis face to face-but was rebuffed. Then, citing pressing personal duties, the members of the board prepared to disperse. S.W.O.C.'s Philip Murray now suggested that the dispute be turned over to President Roosevelt for personal arbitration. The incongruity of this was that the President of the U. S. had disqualified himself as an impartial judge by declaring for the C.I.O. position last fortnight...
Arbitration Before Mediation. John Lewis' chief lieutenant for the steel war, Chairman Philip Murray of the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee, had gone to Washington early in the week to confer with Secretary of Labor Perkins on the idea of appointing a Federal mediation board. She, a Joan of Arc to many a worker, was eager to do so, but Franklin Roosevelt had wanted to give Ohio's Governor Davey a chance to bring peace locally, as Michigan's Murphy had done in the motor strikes. Meantime, while Governor Martin Davey tried and failed, Franklin Roosevelt personally...
Most remarkable fact about the 1937 kudos list was the abdication of the nation's four perennial kudos champions. Nicholas Murray Butler, who received his 35th honorary degree last winter from Trujillo University in San Domingo, appeared to be satisfied. Nor were there any degrees in prospect last week for the New York Times's commencement-speaking Editor John Huston Finley (30), Harvard's President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell (28), Herbert Hoover (27). In their stead 1937 had produced many a new public face...
Friday, June 18, Dr. Robert M. Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago, spoke over the air. On June 1 Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, gave an address on a nationwide hookup...