Word: phils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Phil Murray, sensing a challenge to his control of C.I.O., made a speech to his loyal auto workers, deliberately brushed off the shocked and furious Reuther while he saluted the beaming Thomas as "this great big guy for whom I have a distinct fondness." Then Murray got out of town...
...Thomas-Addes faction found comfort in one thing. After weeping over the telephone to Phil Murray, Thomas pulled himself together and, with the help of Murray agents, got himself elected a vice president. George Addes held onto his secretary-treasurer job and Richard Leonard, an in & out Thomas-Addes man, won the second vice-presidency. On top of that, the perverse and unpredictable U.A.W. elected a majority of Thomas-Addes directors. This would be Reuther's executive board. Then the delegates howled down a proposal to give their officers a salary raise and went home...
...wave of Progressivism toppled almost as soon as it surged. Many of the old Progressive ideals became fact under the New Deal, and Bob La Follette Jr. was no fierce-eyed prophet. A Democratic-Republican coalition broke Progressive control in Wisconsin; Phil was defeated as governor and only the backing of Franklin Roosevelt saved Bob Jr.'s Senate seat in the election...
...personality front, Harry Truman (Taurus) seemed in for a rise in prestige and a decline in health, Winston Churchill (Sagittarius) for a "permanent change of residence," the C.I.O.'s Phil Murray (Gemini) for "a churning year," Crooner Frank Sinatra (Sagittarius) for "increased power." Things were not going so well-astrology-wise-with Generalissimo Stalin (Sagittarius). The current opposition of Uranus to the Sun in Stalin's chart pointed inexorably toward the end of his trail, certainly...
...Addes has been content with the U.A.W.'s No. 2 job. Up to now George Addes has usually thrown his support to Compromiser Thomas. He is still pledged to Thomas, who, with little positive backing of his own among auto workers, is also favorably regarded by C.I.O. President Phil Murray. Thomas has been kept in office up to now largely by the negative votes of those, including the Addes group, who either fear Reuther's ambitions or resent his vindictiveness...