Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Police officers William Murray and William Storey tabbed Ellison as a "ring-leader" in a crowd which had gathered on the Common near a searchlight truck on Garden St. The crowd was shouting obscenities "not fit to be heard in open court," Murray said. He later arrested Ellison as the student ran toward the entrance of the Commander Hotel, crying "Let's break up the (Dever) rally...
Soon after the strike that followed the seizure, Murray made plans to tour the steel plants with Ben Fairless, president of U.S. Steel, in a mutual effort to bring peace to the steel industry...
Leading contender for the C.I.O. presidency is Allen S. Haywood, 64, C.I.O. executive vice president, who came out of the U.M.W. with Murray and has been a close associate ever since. Haywood may be the rallying point for all those who oppose the C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther, 45, well-hated by Phil Murray's Steelworkers...
Neither Haywood, Reuther nor anyone else in sight has the stature or wisdom of Phil Murray. By coincidence, both Harry Truman and Ben Fairless used the same term in eulogizing Murray this week. They called him a "Christian Gentleman," a hard term to earn in the vortex of a social storm...
Died. Philip Murray, 66, Scottish-born coal miner who went to the pits when he was ten, in 1936 became chairman of the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee, and in 1940 president of the powerful Congress of Industrial Organizations; of a heart attack; in a San Francisco hotel room (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...