Word: phil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There has been no police strike in a major U.S. city since 1919, when Governor Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts rode to national prominence by calling out the troops to break one in Boston. But last week Missouri's square-chinned Governor Phil M. Donnelly got his dander up over the very thought of a police strike...
...right. Next day, C.I.O. President Phil Murray sang out lustily because any controls had been dropped. Industry's top stentor, U.S. Chamber of Commerce President William K. Jackson, yelled because any had been kept. Lesser fry-packers, cattle and grocery men, the pro-and anti-control press, etc.-broke out in a contagion of argument. Last of all, the consumer took up the battle with violent yes and no messages to the Board...
...Sioux disliked the steady pressure on their western hunting lands. They showed their dislike by killing boatmen, miners, surveyors, or whoever else happened to be handy. In 1876 General Phil Sheridan dispatched three converging U.S. Army columns to teach them manners. As supply ship for one of these columns he hired the Far West, Captain Grant Marsh, at a rent...
...prospects for a period of labor peace seemed excellent. The C.I.O.'s Phil Murray had let it be known that he is against overall strikes during the period of rising prices; A.F.L. leaders, too, were following a policy of extreme caution...
Strikes had swept the country. The President's attempt to bring management and labor together in conference ended in fiasco. Walter Reuther shut down General Motors, Phil Murray shut down steel, and by January there were more people on strike than ever before in U.S. history. On April Fool's Day John Lewis shut the soft coal mines and the next month Messrs. Whitney & Johnston stopped the railroads...