Word: phils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...told the story of frustrated Phil Blake, impatient idealist, and his conversion to active membership in the Communist Party. ("He found answers there . . . some sense of security, of common purpose.") It told of Phil's new creed ("We do not question . . .") and of his development into a perfectionist for the U.S. and an apologist for the Sovíet Union. It showed Phil at work in labor unions ("Come early and vote late") and in front organizations that turned and twisted (and took new names) with the whip-cracks of the party line...
...Them." It was 9:51, and raining, when the President's party reached Convention Hall. Inside the auditorium, bands, whistles, horns and sirens were rousing the delegates into the Truman demonstration, set off by Governor Phil Donnelly's nominating speech. The demonstration lasted 39 minutes, thus surpassing by seven minutes the longest dinning for any Republican candidate three weeks before...
...miners in the steelmakers' "captive" coal pits went the same $1-a-day boost John L. Lewis had wangled from other coal operators. Then U.S. Steel Corp., which had held out for more than two months against the wage-price spiral (TIME, May 3), gave Phil Murray what he wanted for his steelmakers: an average 13?-an-hour increase. Other steel companies followed U.S. Steel's lead, were expected to follow it also with price lifts (see BUSINESS...
...Says he: "It will take the place of most of the other arts because it combines all of them." Last January he set up an organization to visualize his vision. With Photographer Robert Capa, former United Artists Radio Director Henry S. White and RKO's Vice President Phil Reisman, he incorporated an outfit called World Video. Their aim: to build and film good shows, sell them to the television networks...
...Vice President Virgil Pinkley, a Southern Californian with both editorial and business experience, as his "executive assistant." He had also purchased a new paper mill. And within a month, the Times had signed on 25 new staffers, was quietly organizing them into reporter-photographer teams. Stringbean-shaped U.P. man Phil Ault, who had worked with Pinkley in London and North Africa, had started pounding a Times police beat-traditional prep school for prospective city editors in a strange town...