Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Society's first reissue, out this week, is Three Blind Mice played by the Chicago Loopers, a disc full of the sad harmonics and eccentric lyrical twists characteristic of the great Chicago-style. Such masters as Beiderbecke, Frankie Trumbauer (saxophone), Carl Kress (guitar), and Don Murray (clarinet) formed the band. On the two sides of the record, the masters take turns showing what they can do with variations on the common mouse theme...
Guarded like a state secret, the annual Pulitzer Prize awards for distinction in U. S. letters and journalism were revealed this week when Columbia University's dignified old President Nicholas Murray Butler portentously puffed to his feet at a Manhattan banquet and read off the list of winners chosen by the advisory board of Columbia's School of Journalism. The awards...
...Henry A. Murray, Jr. '15 Assistant professor of Abnormal and Dynamic Psychology, has been making arrangements for the new course, which will make Harvard the second University to give such a course. Yale has had one this year and it has proved very successful...
...last March in the Pittsburgh offices of the biggest steel-producing unit in the world, Chairman Philip Murray of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee and President Benjamin Franklin Fairless of Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. sat down to seal an historic industrial treaty. The broad outlines of the treaty between Steel and Labor had already been settled by the negotiators' respective superiors, John Llewellyn Lewis for Labor and Myron Charles Taylor for Steel (TIME, March 15). After the first talk Philip Murray declared: "This is unquestionably the greatest story in the history of the American Labor Movement...
...time thus gained Mr. Taylor had to work fast, for a wage boost originating outside would have undone his secret diplomacy. Within a week the independents, who "would rather be damned than give in to the Left," were receiving reports from their spies that Steelman Fairless and Labor-man Murray were about to sit down to bargain. The independents were incredulous. Just before the bargaining began, U. S. Steel's President Irvin called up all the independents in person to break the news officially. In terrific agitation the independents started to criss-cross the country with long-distance calls...