Word: phils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expected, organized labor roared. For one thing, labor had had protection from injunctions for 15 years. Phil Murray cried that the amendments would "tear up all the collective bargaining contracts in the country . . . put the Government's power squarely behind big employers." He was exaggerating. Labor tried to show that the whole thing was a National Association of Manufacturers' plot. The A.F.L. shouted at Congressmen in full-page newspaper advertisements: "Don't be a NAM fool...
...better crooners: his "Love Walked In" softens up the gruffest customer and sends him away humming. In addition there are the Goldwyn Girls; Vera Zorina in a number of first-rate ballet offerings; the Ritz Brothers running hot and cold through a dozen harebrained interludes; and Phil Baker with accordion and gags. There is little doubt who makes the ranking bid to steal the show: Bergen and McCarthy at their first-flush-of-fame best sparring with Baker and more delightfully with Bobby Clark. Even the W. C. Fields routine with McCarthy pales next to Clark's classic buffoonery. Each...
...Cubs' Don Johnson and practically carried him on his back, thereby keeping Johnson from completing a double play. At Yankee Stadium (right), Hal Wagner of the Boston Red Sox made it. Hit on the head with a baseball, he was knocked out temporarily, and but for Yankee Shortstop Phil Rizzuto's frantic leap might have been spiked...
...Phil Murray was conferring feverishly. There was a closed-doors conference with U.S. Steel Vice President John A. Stephens, an all-night session with Stephens and other U.S. Steel negotiators. Rumors of a settlement drifted out at the same time that "No Contract, No Work" stickers appeared on steelworkers' cars...
...Then Phil Murray made his announcement. Steel had settled for slightly more than 15?. Murray had given up his demands for a union shop and the annual wage, had promised not to press his portal-to-portal pay suits; U.S. Steel "hoped" to hold the price line...