Word: phils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...C.I.O.'s ninth annual convention in Boston last week, which a lot of delegates expected to be a Donnybrook Fair between the left and the right, turned out to be more like a day at Sunnybrook Farm. Shrewd Phil Murray had it firmly under control...
...sway the convention. They had come primed to fight for the re-election of bumbling R. J. Thomas as a C.I.O. vice president, and thus build up his efforts to take the presidency of the U.A.W. away from redheaded Walter Reuther. But the leftists never got their fists up. Phil Murray, taking note of rumors that Thomas was plotting with John L. Lewis to take the autoworkers out of the C.I.O., called Thomas in and bluntly told them he was through as a C.I.O. top officer. When his nomination came up, Thomas bowed...
...delegates had little chance to blow off steam until Phil Murray's nomination for re-election to his eighth term as president. They voted him in by acclamation and gave him 20 minutes' worth of howling, snake-dancing and table-thumping. Then Murray did some thumping of his own for price controls and smacked the Government for being "definitely derelict" in its duties. Later he was asked if he meant to include Harry Truman in his criticism. He did. Said Murray: "In this country we can criticize whom we choose, when we choose...
...regular starters, halfback Carl Bottenfield and center Paul O'Brien, and second-string back and lineman Phil Isenberg and Jim Brennan are still doubtful participants in the Exeter contest as a result of injuries sustained in last week's tilt with the Dartmouth freshmen...
Just before the half ended an Amherst fullback tripped center forward Phil Potter as he was shooting at the Amherst goal, and Potter promptly scored the resulting penalty kick to make the score...