Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Penn is trying to pad its athletic pockets again. This time the prodigal of the Ivy League, through athletic director Fran Murray, is out to wreck the NCAA partial black-out on college football games...
...Murray, a violent opponent of both the partial TV plan and of Bob Hall, Yale athletic director and chairman of the NCAA committee, at first refused to go along. Penn had already made lucrative-plans to televise all its home games. However, Penn eventually backed down and the trial program appeared to have clear sailing. That is, until the camera-happy Quakers once more decided to step in last week...
...Columbia. Later he got a job at Bryn Mawr, published his first textbook, wrote a delicately worded book on prostitution for a group of Manhattan reformers called the Committee of Fifteen. After a brief return engagement at Columbia, he headed west ("You are making a great mistake," cried Nicholas Murray Butler). He taught at Nebraska, in Texas, in Chicago, became head of the economics department at Stanford, finally returned east to teach at Cornell. With Walter Lippmann, he also became one of the first editors of the New Republic. Then in 1919 he turned to a brand-new career...
Wilson wryly noted that he had had "some little experience with this kind of dictatorship" in the steel wage fight. Without naming the Steelworkers' Boss Phil Murray, he said: "I was overruled by a single man who . . . exercises more control over this country than the President, the Congress we elected, and the officers appointed under the Government." Harry Truman, said Wilson, had agreed to a "just" solution to the steel strike. "But the solution did not happen to give all that was wanted to one single man, this man who is able to ride roughshod over the President...
...Murray and Hall have been at odds since last spring, when Penn first refused to go along with the NCAA agreement to the TV blackout. Hall won the first skirmish when Penn was forced to back down under threat of expulsion from the NCAA...