Word: phil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Little Steel formula. In the end, only Franklin Roosevelt can change it, since the formula is part of a presidential directive. But union labor, having helped re-elect Franklin Roosevelt just three weeks ago, is as yet unwilling to train its oratorical guns on him. At the C.I.O. convention, Phil Murray concentrated on lesser fry, primarily WLBster George Taylor, who devised Little Steel. Said Murray: "We have been aware of your machinations." Mend your ways or "resign your...
...huge Stevens Hotel, 95 top C.I.O. executives listened for two hours to glowing, cocky words from Sidney Hillman & Co. about Sidney Hillman & Co.'s Political Action Committee. Then, unanimously and without debate, the C.I.O. Executive Committee voted to keep P.A.C. alive and kicking. Photographers asked C.I.O. President Phil Murray to pose with Hillman. Grinned Murray: "You'll have to clear that with Sidney...
Postwar Guide. Her first book was Reconstruction in Louisiana. To students now concerned with the postwar world, this detailed account of what happened in defeated Louisiana-where Federal troops (and bullet-headed General Phil Sheridan) remained in occupation until 1877-is invaluable. To plain readers it is a collection of facts which their histories have neglected to give them-including a brilliant sketch of the Negro Governor Warmoth, who was only 26 when he took office. Like Dr. Lonn's next painful subject-Desertion During the Civil War-the book is gall & wormwood to romanticists of the Old South...
...talent yardstick showed Toronto stronger than last year. Dave ("Sweeney") Schriner had come out of retirement to score 19 goals and 16 assists in seven games and give the Maple Leafs' first line the lift it needed. Montreal, although it had lost veteran Center Phil Watson and two of its top defensemen, Mike McMahon and Gerry Hefferman disqualified by a new league rule barring players who work in essential war industry, was still close to prewar big-league hockey standards. That was scarcely true of the league's four U.S. teams: Detroit, Chicago, Boston, New York-who might...
...Lebanon, Mo., hometown of both Missouri gubernatorial candidates, just couldn't decide which was its favorite son. The vote: Jean Paul Bradshaw, Republican, 1,791; Phil M. Donnelly, Democrat...