Word: phil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delay was typical of present-day steel negotiations. Industry has fought a slow retreat; labor has methodically exhausted every lower authority to make its case correct; WLB is in no hurry. The barrage began with Phil Murray, in a quiet, dark blue suit, saying quietly: "I do not come before the Board for the purpose of wielding a stick or threatening a strike. I don't want any commotion . . . to arise out of these discussions that might precipitate a disruption of production...
...this was in the approved labor tradition of infighting. But all the time Phil Murray knew that the WLB panel would not give his 450,000 steelworkers their 17?-an-hour increase...
...wrinkled, canny Chairman William H. Davis made that slow-spokenly clear. To a Congressional committee, a day before Phil Murray spoke, Davis said that WLB is "bound to adhere" to its stabilization line, which includes the Little Steel formula. He would adhere, at least as long as the Administration's cost-of-living line was held by food subsidies. WLB hoped to delay any decision until Congress makes up its mind...
...through a catch-as-catch-can cineversion of Miss Landis' book (and Satevepost articles) of the same title, reporting their experiences as USO entertainers. In the book, only Miss Landis got married. In the picture, Martha Raye, the feminists' Joe E. Brown, practically ingests the comic sergeant (Phil Silvers) who chauffeurs their jeep. Mitzi Mayfair snuggles up to a uniformed ex-vaudeville partner (Dick Haymes, who is Fox's threat to Frank Sinatra, and sings like melting vanilla ice cream). Kay Francis plays handles with an English Army doctor who utters the stunning gallantry...
...will go to New Haven to talk against Yale and stay here to debate Princeton, and two of the men will be eligible for the prizes, which held by the University in a custom unique in Harvard extra curricular activity. Candidates for the Council should leave their names with Phil Troen at Lowell House...