Word: phil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Steelman told the newsmen: "I might say that at least one of the reasons Phil Murray looked so tired was, as he told us, that he'd had only three hours sleep in the last...
Quid Pro Quo. Phil Murray doubtless figured that the week had been worth its loss of sleep. Labor's objective, he had said, could be stated in three little words: "Substantial wage increases." Now it looked as if he was going to get them for his Steelworkers...
...price question. Five days before the White House conference, the Government gave way. Although Price Administrator Chester Bowles raised fierce objections, John Snyder and Economic Administrator John Caskie Collet agreed to about a $4-a-ton rise in steel prices. The best guess in Washington was that Phil Murray might eventually...
Goal & Gamble. Phil Murray was playing the old-fashioned union game, seeking the simple objective which old Sam Gompers once described in the single word "more...
...been a gamble. To win its objective, the C.I.O. had called, or threatened to call, strikes of some 1,500,000 workers. Meanwhile Phil Murray's adversaries, President Bill Green of the A.F. of L. and John Lewis of the Mine Workers, sat on the sidelines, waiting to see how the game would come out, knowing that a C.I.O. victory would bring raises for their workers as well...