Word: phil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...PHIL SHERF...
Public Servant. Then in 1931 Wisconsin's Governor Phil La Follette asked him to join the state's public service commission. Lilienthal walked the streets of Madison all night, turning the offer over in his mind. Next morning he telephoned his wife, asked her advice and accepted the $5,000-a-year job. La Follette said that that night Dave Lilienthal decided to make public service his career...
...fired. To test the section prohibiting political action in union papers which are supported by members' dues, labor's press published the congressional voting record on the bill. The C.I.O. hoped it would be prosecuted. In Washington, A.F.L. and C.I.O officials met to map further strategy. Phil Murray sat down with the lawyers of his C.I.O. unions. The A.F.L.'s General Counsel Joe Padway and some 100 A.F.L lawyers went over the law's text word by word...
...proof that his veto and reversal would win him friends-at least for the time being. Alexander Fell Whitney, who once threatened to spend millions of his Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen's dollars to beat Harry Truman, wired that his Brotherhood was "deeply grateful." Said tired Phil Murray: "President Truman is a good political crystal gazer and he knows that if he is going to be a successful candidate in 1948, he has to have the support of organized labor. Whether the veto is or is not a matter of principle with him, I am not in a position...
There is considerable self-indictment in Mr. Phil Wasserman's letter [TIME, June 2] in which he claims to have discovered that nearsighted women have the most easily excitable passions...