Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Steel, so in Motors is C. I. O. pressing its unionization drive. While Philip Murray, Secretary & Treasurer of United Mine Workers, was speaking last week for the union at motor plants near Detroit, the Chrysler, General Motors and Packard companies all gave wage boosts or bonuses to their workers...
...Pittsburgh, Philip Murray, pious and progressive captain of the Committee for Industrial Organization's drive to unite U. S. steelworkers in one big industrial union, announced that new recruits to date totaled 82,315, cried that the re-election of Roosevelt was a signal to "go forward...
...raise to returning prosperity, warned that it would be promptly followed by a rise in the price of steel. C. I. O. leaders denounced it as a bribe to persuade workers against joining their union. To the mighty argument of $75,000,000 they replied with scorn. Cried Philip Murray, asserting that the raise had been decided on weeks ago and held up in the hope of crediting it to a Landon victory: "Thoroughly licked in Tuesday's election and thoroughly afraid, the steel industry is making a last belated attempt to keep workers away from our organization...
Jovial, grey-haired, leather-faced Major Tuttle was a Boston lawyer before he joined the Army in the War. His three high-school horses, Vast, Si Murray and Olympic, can each do 135 different tricks. Each trick has a technical name like the piaffé (trotting on one spot), the passage (highly accentuated trot with slight forward movement). His horses get neither beatings for punishment nor carrots for reward. The best that they can hope for is an occasional pat. The immobility of a good dressage rider is actually an illusion. He achieves his effects by shifts of weight...
...odor of election. Every time the scent turned and twisted, the two hounds raised their heads and bayed for the delectation of the countryside. Alf Landon's course, starting from Philadelphia, doubled back to Pittsburgh, veered to Newark. N. J., swept into Manhattan (where at the old-fashioned Murray Hill Hotel he met Al Smith for the first time), dashed out to Oyster Bay, L. I., home of Widow Edith Carow Roosevelt, paused for an hour at Madison Square Garden, suddenly sped south to Charleston, W. Va., finally started on a long lope home to Kansas with one major...