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Like any good commissar, Dennis carried out Moscow's orders. But he was not too skillful as an executive officer and tactician. He tried, for example, to get Mike Quill, onetime devout party-liner, to throw the support of his C.I.O. Transport Workers Union behind Henry Wallace's presidential campaign. Quill refused. When...
Dennis threatened, the unpredictable Quill dumped the Reds out of his union, declared open war on the party...
Tasty hasty pudding and a neat hand with the quill won miss Lee Tyler, 20-year-old drum majorette from Newton, the title or Best Hasty Pudding Cook of 1949 from ballyhoo experts of the "Tomorrow Is Manana" staff last night...
...called labor agents who peddled the Communist line "goddam traitors," and kicked Harvard-bred Lee Pressman, a notorious Communist-liner, out of the job of C.I.O. counsel. From that point on, Phil Murray grew bolder. Some believe that he even helped push that old bibber of Red propaganda, Michael Quill, boss of the transport workers, into taking the pledge...
...attacking the Red-run New York C.I.O. Council. His executive board ordered the council dissolved because of its "slavish adherence" to the Communist Party line. The council, once a power in New York politics, would be reorganized by the right wing and probably headed by the reformed Mike Quill...