Word: phils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Auto Workers in this very convention hall a year ago last March. I was here. I took his good little right hand in mine and I patted his red locks. 'Walter,' I said . . . 'Walter, I am going to support you.' He said, 'Phil...
Delegates to the United Auto Workers' convention listened politely to the paternal, burr-flecked voice. Words were inadequate, said C.I.O. Boss Phil Murray, to express the good will he felt toward that splendid little redhead, Walter Reuther. Over the mike in Atlantic City's cavernous Convention Hall, he purred...
Most of the 2,000 delegates had longer memories than aging Phil Murray. They recalled that last year, when Walter Reuther could best have used a boost from Murray, he got a shove instead. What actually happened in the hectic U.A.W. presidential race of 1946 was that Murray had endorsed bumbling R. J. Thomas, stooge of the union's left-wingers. Reuther had won only by the narrowest of margins, and the left-wingers had captured all the union's other top jobs, plus control of the executive board. Phil Murray had gloated: "Reuther has been contained...
...beginning of the season the Crimson did not do so well, but nine weeks have meant improvement. Now the forward line works together with Phil Potter, Carlos Blanco, Kenny Chun, and Manny Aguirre as the keys in the center and Bill Dawson, Johnny Spivak, and Roy Heisler on the outside...
...backfield are some of the best runners to grace the Freshman ranks in a long time. John West, John White, Carl Bottenfield and Jim Lowell make up the first string but Ed Stearns, Phil Isenberg, Bob Diblasio and Dave Warden, to mention only a few, see almost as much action...