Word: phils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vinegar-voiced Howard's "Board of Experts" are a help. They include his oldtime stooge, George Shelton; Jeeves-voiced Harry McNaughton, the "Bottle" of the old Phil Baker shows; and bawdy Lulu McConnell - veteran vaudevillians all. Their exasperating inability to answer timely questions. (Sample: Coffee rationing has been brought about by the shortage of what bean?) has been, for the past 15 months, a sanctuary for refugees from radio quizzes...
...American Federation of Labor was the biggest labor empire in U.S. history. Comfortably atop 6,500,000 able leaders, fantastic phonies, criminal racketeers and hard-working dues payers sat apple-colored President William Green, bumbling master of all he surveyed and now indisputably the peer of C.I.O.'s Phil Murray. The newly prodigious membership gave the Federation vast political power and an annual income exceeding $3,735,000. The record-breaking total was reached at the 63rd annual convention, in Boston, when the International Association of Machinists came back into the fold...
...helped him filch at least $1 million in union dues, and blackmail the czars of Hollywood on a Hollywood scale. Staring coldly back at Willie Bioff's fat, pointing finger was an all-star police lineup: Gunman Paul ("The Waiter") de Lucia; pistol-packing ex-Capone Muscleman Phil D'Andrea; Beer-war Veteran Charles ("Cherry-Nose Joy") Gioe; Machine-gun Expert Louis ("The Man to See") Compagna; Frank ("The Immune") Maritote, alias Frankie Diamond; 14-time indicted Ralph Pierce; John Rosselli and Newark's Louis Kaufman...
...Served. Phil Murray's tests: > Stabilization of prices and limitation of profits...
...though Phil Murray and his largest member union differed in detail, they were agreed on the main point. Summed up slender, serious Victor Reuther, U.A.W. resolutions chairman: "I do not believe that labor should make a blind date...