Word: phils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...C.I.O. Boss Phil Murray fell the major task of making labor's case. He wrote to the President: the bill was "not corrective"; it would "encourage and increase labor disputes"; it was "exclusively and aggressively anti-labor . . . sinister . . . dangerous" not only to labor but to the U.S. public. But in all his 8,000 words Phil Murray made no mention of the abuses of labor's power which the bill sought to correct...
...topmost bosses cried the alarum. Placid Bill Green roused himself: "Fascism may grip America unawares." P.A.C. Boss Sidney Hillman stirred on his sickbed: "The most extreme and autocratic controls over the liberties and democratic rights of American workers ever seriously proposed in the history of our nation." Phil Murray could see "destruction of the labor movement" as Harry Truman's sole aim. John Lewis, fresh from his handshaking with the President, was discreetly silent...
...Phil Spitalny's all-girl orchestra, by General Electric...
...Cartoons. But not for long. He proposed the "accouplement" of A.F.L. and C.I.O., cynically putting his old friend Phil Murray on the block. When the shocked Murray attacked him for suggesting such a deal, he put Murray on trial in the basement of the U.M.W. building (from the walls of which hundreds of Lewis cartoons glared at the white-faced Murray) and read him out of the miners' union. Then he led the miners out of Murray's C.I.O...
...discovered the charms of 18½?? Harry Truman himself. On Jan. 17 he offered the figure as a compromise in the steel controversy. Its upward curve proved just right: plump enough for Phil Murray (who had demanded 25? an hour), slender enough for Ben Fairless (who had refused to give more than 15?). The perfect 18½ has been the darling of most strike arbiters ever since...