Word: curran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went to Capitol Hill to ask, dramatically, for his strikebreaking measures, Harry Truman was reasonably sure that he had won the railway war. But the baffling civil war was not won. There was still John Lewis, glowering on the left flank-or was it the right flank? Joe Curran, clearly on the red left, threatened to tie up merchant shipping on June 15 by calling out the maritime unions...
N.M.U.'s Joe Curran set the strike date: June...
...Thousand Times No. Last week New York's Republican Secretary of State Thomas J. Curran, who is Tom Dewey's leader in Manhattan, asked Joe Baldwin to liquidate himself politically, get out of the House of Representatives...
Last week Myers, who had shared office with Curran for nine years, announced that he would not run again in next month's N.M.U. elections. Owing to an oversight, said Blackie sleekly, his dues had been paid late and he feared that "this technicality could be used ... to disrupt and harm the union." But Curran, McKenzie and Smith were still on the ticket...
Both big Joe Curran and his disaffected shipmates would probably be reelected. The Communists weren't after the skipper's stripes; they just wanted to wring some of the salt from his socks. Curran would keep the crew if they would show a little more respect for the Old Man. But until the beefs were squared away, N.M.U. would be a loose ship...