Word: phils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anthony Soltyslak, of the famous Providence swimming family, will be up against Dario "Fritz" Berizzi and Phil Walker in the 220-yard breast-stroke...
...than one way to skin a political cat, Wisconsin's Progressive young Governor Philip Fox La Follette last year tried a new way of getting after his State's privately owned utility companies. Since Wisconsin's Constitution prevented the State from launching publicly owned utilities, ingenious Phil La Follette got four of his associates headed by Republican Assemblyman Charles Perry to charter a private corporation named Wisconsin Development Authority. Ostensible purpose of WDA, for which the La Follette-controlled legislature authorized annual grants, was to engage in "promotional and educational" work to foster municipal ownership and rural...
...Munroe shares top honors in breast-stroke with Berizzi and his regular, long-coasting stroke will make him hard to keep up with in the 200. Phil Walker has been fast in practice and in the Alumni meet in which he took a third, while Jack Waldron, who has just learnt the butterfly this year, is expected to show some speed...
...Phil Murray, who is as good a student of heavy industry as any steelmaster, the occasion was not one for unrestrained celebration. He could and did declare: "In not one instance has any officer, national, sub-regional or lodge, ever authorized or fostered a strike in a mill under contract. . . . Observe your contract and your union grows. Violate it and your union dies...
...force of organizers and officeworkers from 437 to 354 (including 75 part-time organizers). Though numerous resolutions were offered asking for a $6-a-day minimum instead of $5 a day and a 30-hour instead of a 40-hour week, the convention finally left it to Phil Murray & friends to get the best bargain they could...