Word: phil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leaders of C.I.O. could think of only one man to be director of C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee. It was Phil Murray, and Murray already had his hands full as president of C.I.O. In the end, without enthusiasm, they set up some hydra-headed boards to do the job that the late Sidney Hillman had done alone...
Said C.I.O. President Phil Murray: "That isn't a labor dispute. It's a row between capitalists...
Last week, while both sides were putting their cases to C.I.O. Boss Phil Murray, Morris Muster went off fishing. His parting word: "I'm singing a song of warning. ... I hope my little sacrifice will be a bellwether move...
...Breather? In Washington, worried Economic Stabilizer Chester Bowles came up with an idea, tried it out on unenthusiastic Harry Truman, then hurried off to try to sell it to Labor Bosses Phil Murray, Bill Green, et al. The idea: let the C.I.O. and A.F.L. chiefs agree to recommend to their memberships that the U.S. have a year of industrial peace. Bowles asked them to say, in effect: "Brothers, now is the time to keep our feet on the ground and get production going against inflation; let's keep working and lay off any new wage demands except those already...
People who know Philip L. Graham, 30, think the boss's daughter married well. As a student at the University of Florida, intelligent, easygoing Phil Graham weathered a depression year by working as a Miami milkman. In 1939 he was graduated from Harvard Law School, where he edited the Law Review. Then he became a law secretary, first to Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed, then to Justice Felix Frankfurter (a close friend of Meyer's). He worked briefly for the Office of Emergency Management. In 1942 Graham entered the Army Air Forces as a private, came...