Word: phils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scene II: the Blackstone. To Bob Hannegan's three-room suite in the venerable old Blackstone Hotel, two nights before the convention, went P.A.C.'s Chair man Sidney Hillman and C.I.O. President Phil Murray. Also present: Postmaster General Frank Walker. Mincing no words, Messrs. Hillman & Murray told Bob Hannegan and Frank Walker that Jimmy Byrnes was not acceptable to P.A.C. Reasons: 1) he is a confirmed Southerner; 2) as OWMobilizer, he has held wages down. Hillman and Murray then went a good deal farther. No Southerner, they said, would get P.A.C. backing. Jimmy Byrnes gracefully withdrew. P.A.C...
That afternoon, at a secret caucus, an emotional Phil Murray addressed P.A.C.'s delegates (from 28 states). In his low, Scottish burr, thrusting his fist forward. Phil Murray said: "Wallace . . . Wallace . . . Wallace. That's it. Just keep pounding...
...young hotheads advocated forming a third party and to hell with both the G.O.P. and Franklin Roosevelt. C.I.O. President Phil Murray offered some cool advice. Third parties, he said, are not practical. And Sidney Hillman warned: "Don't come along with any highfalutin organization that may work out 25 years from now, or may not." Murray and Hillman well knew how third parties have failed in the U.S.: the Populists, the Socialists, the Communists, "Big Bill" Haywood's Wobblies (the I.W.W.), whose theory of progress was to dynamite the social order; or even old Bob LaFollette...
With history in mind, Phil Murray proposed an organization which would promote labor's interests within the two-party system, but which would have a platform and party workers of its own. The choice of Sidney Hillman as head of the P.A.C. was obvious-he had long been labor's shrewdest, most pragmatic politicker, with connections in the White House...
Constance Bennett, who might or might not be 15-year-old Peter Bennett Plant's mother, finally won legal guardianship of him, after twelve years of claims and counterclaims, in & out of court. In 1932, two years after nicking the late Playboy Phil Plant for a $1,000,000 divorce, she said young Peter was her godson, formally adopted him. Last fall, during a skirmish with the Plant estate for a $150,000 settlement on young Peter, she said the boy was actually her son and Phil's. At other times there have been other explanations of Peter...