Word: curran
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...other compromise Murray and Hillman won. Lewis wanted Harry Bridges, West Coast longshoremen leader often suspected of being a Red, as vice-president. In the end they agreed on big, windy, swaggering Joe Curran of the National Maritime Union...
These were the shouts of resentment and dissent. There were other voices in a different key. Salaried C. I. O. officials, a few disruptive leftists like the Transport Workers' Mike Quill in Manhattan, Joe Curran of the National Maritime Union, pledged continued loyalty to John Lewis. Packinghouse workers in Illinois, who had stood in sullen silence weeks ago while Villkie pleaded with them, heard Lewis, voted to go with him. Their action might upset the Chicago Democratic plurality, put Illinois safely in the Willkie camp. Many in the rank & file of the mineworkers in Illinois and Pennsylvania loyally...
...American Youth Congress' Emergency Peace Mobilization Conference, scheduled for this week in Chicago, was denounced as Communist-inspired. In Manhattan Joseph Curran, President of the Greater New York Industrial Union Council of the C. I. O., was rebuked by officers of the United Retail & Wholesale Employes of America, a C. I. O. affiliate, for soliciting funds for the Mobilization's support...
PIANO IN THE BAND - Dale Curran - Reynal & Hifchcock...
...Dale Curran's descriptions of theatrical and ballroom jazz are excellent. Because he likes true jazz so well, he is not one-tenth so good at telling about it. He avoids, to be sure, those indulgences in technological slang with which customers embarrass the second trumpeter. But he does let Jeff Walters say what Jeff Walters could never have said: "The world needs beauty...