Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until he was 30, handsome, wavy-haired Dave McDonald hankered to write plays. A parochial school boy, he had gone to work at 15, first as a machinist's helper and later as a clerk in a steel plant office. Phil Murray, then a United Mine Workers' vice president, hired McDonald as private secretary. But all the while he was learning the union ropes, in the tough Appalachian coal districts, Dave studied theater on the side. By 1932, he had won a certificate of graduation from Carnegie Tech's drama school, written a couple...
Through the late '305, McDonald served as Murray's right hand in organizing the C.I.O.'s powerful Steelworkers union. He kept track of administrative detail, helped negotiate contracts, actually ran union affairs in 1941 while Murray was laid low by a heart attack. In 1942 McDonald was elected secretary-treasurer, and then was regularly reelected. In his spare time he played duffer's golf, learned to fly and piloted his own plane, but also worked hard at the union's affairs. He drew up the blueprint for an organizing drive in the South...
Alliance Director A. Harold Murray hurried to the hospital. He spoke to the exasperated doctor, then to the bewildered old lady. What, she wanted to know, was this operation? Murray explained. Well, she said, if Mr. Murray said it was O.K., it was O.K. The Alliance was all the family she had. The doctor shook his head in wonder...
Young Eddie Cantor acted in Alliance-sponsored plays, Arthur Murray learned to dance there, and Morris Cohen discussed philosophy in the Comte Synthetic Circle. Radioman David Sarnoff and Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver got encouragement from sympathetic teachers...
...house is still the best place for the kids to spend their leisure time. So popular is the Alliance, even among East Side roughnecks, that a threat to cut off membership is usually enough to keep young toughs in line. Seldom does a teen-age gang need what Director Murray calls "psychiatric limitation" (a hasty phone call for the cops...