Word: phils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Phil Johnson, who had a Scandinavian indestructibility which no amount of toil seemed to affect, stopped off for a day's work at Boeing's Wichita plant on the way home. That night, without warning, he collapsed with a cerebral hemorrhage. By next evening Phil Johnson was dead...
...Boeing Aircraft's Phil Johnson thought his payroll after the war would total 17,000-18,000 less than now but twice as many as prewar. But cagey President Johnson was mum about Boeing's plans to enter the non-aircraft market...
...explanation remained: the Progressive Party is only as strong as its LaFollettes. And this year both LaFollette brothers were largely inactive. Brother Phil (three times governor) is a lieutenant colonel on General Douglas MacArthur's staff. Brother Bob, whose Senate seat is good until 1947, discovered too late that the Progressives had not been sleeping but dying. Bob rushed back to Wisconsin, made two radio speeches, then bounced up & down the dairyland, spending a day each at 20 county seats. Never had he seen such apathy, he told friends. If the apathy continued, Young Bob might find himself again...
...Brooklyn and his lovely and expectant wife Kate (Marjorie Massow). For her confinement she wants the services of eminent Dr. Preston, whose fee is $1,000 and who has no time for the case anyway. Determined to by pass these difficulties, the expectant couple go to a broadcast of Phil Baker's Take It Or Leave It program. Eddie succeeds in answering not one but six $64 questions in the breathless interval before Kate leaves the radio audience for the delivery room, while Phil Baker (himself) halts the program to page Dr. Preston over the air. The six questions...
P.A.C.'s more important politicking was done in Labor Leader Phil Murray's luxurious quarters in the "Bungalow" on the Morrison Hotel's top (42nd) floor. To this spacious $55-a-day suite-living room (with grand piano), dining room, bar, kitchen, three bedrooms, and even a place to put a barber chair-came Vice President Wallace, 45 minutes after he reached Chicago. He climbed up the back stairs from the 41 st floor to escape attention. Here also came Senators Guffey and Pepper, and all but two of the six Cabinet members who attended the convention...