Word: quill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist-cored Greater New York C.I.O. Council, which was noisily defying Murray's edict against backing Henry Wallace, took a stiff right hook from Michael J. Quill, boss of the C.I.O. Transport Workers Union. Tough Mike, heeding Murray's gospel, quit as president of the council, and advised New York City's 42,000 subway workers and bus drivers to have nothing more to do with...
That did not mean that Quill, one of labor's most devoted followers of the far-left line, had been converted all the way over to the right. But it did mean that Quill had put trade unionism ahead of politics and would be on Phil Murray's side if a showdown with the C.I.O.'s Communist-liners developed...
...time ever came-and it might come before the 1948 campaign was over -when Phil Murray felt it necessary to boot these left-wingers out of the C.I.O., he would have a black & white record to use against the likes of Harry Bridges, the Transport Workers' Mike Quill and the United Electrical Workers' Al Fitzgerald...
...students with prints ink in their blood, a deft quill in their hand, and a zest for seeing their doodling in the public press are invited to the CRIMSON building tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock to enter a staff artist competition. Liquid inspiration will be served...
Over the yelling of defense counsel, Johnson also identified as Communists sitting in the room: Michael Quill, president of T.W.U.; Austin Hogan, T.W.U. local leader...