Word: phil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Missouri: Phil M. Donnelly...
...young Philip Murray was fired for "engaging in a brawl on company property." To his surprise, the 600 miners in town walked out on strike in his defense, then elected him president of their United Mine Workers local. The strike was broken, and a sheriff's squad put Phil Murray on a train for Pittsburgh and told him not to come back. "I've never had a doubt in my mind since then of what I wanted to do with my life," said Murray 45 years later, when he was president of the United Steelworkers...
...their room at the Mark Hopkins Hotel, leaving a call for 6:30 next morning. At 6:30, the switchboard rang and rang, but got no answer. A bellboy knocked, then opened the door with a pass key. Mrs. Murray (who is hard of hearing) was still asleep. Phil Murray lay crumpled on the floor between the twin beds, dead of a heart attack...
...with Understanding. The size and character of the C.I.O., its wage rates and pensions, and the political influence of organized labor are all a testament to Phil Murray's dedicated life. But Phil Murray was more than a fighter for labor. He was a man with a keen understanding of the individual's relationship to the world he lives in. Impersonally-as a union boss-Murray was tough and hard, demanding discipline and loyalty, determined and stubborn at the bargaining table. Personally he was emotional and softhearted, endowed with a twinkly-eyed kindliness and an honest humility...
...Brownell's crew, Bill Newlan rowed bow; 2, Charlie Higginson; 3, Allen Chandler; 4, Bob Monks; 5, Pete Simonds; 6, Phil DuBois; 7, John Atherton, Brownell at stroke. Allen Lefkowitz...