Word: meadowcroft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advance notices of the Right v. Left split in the C.I.O. American Newspaper Guild, its 14th annual convention in Sioux City, Iowa last week was to be a finish fight. As it turned out, both Right and Left concentrated, for different reasons, on removing garrulous Guild President Milton Meadowcroft Murray. They succeeded...
Personalities. At the International Executive Board meeting in Chicago's Stevens Hotel, members were divided into two implacable factions. At the center of the controversy was the Guild's tall, dark and garrulous president, Milton Meadowcroft Murray...
...Milton Meadowcroft Murray, 37, new Guild president of Scotch-Irish-English-Dutch descent, is a crack newspaperman. Twice president of the Detroit Guild, smart negotiator of Guild contracts on two of Detroit's three papers, he is assistant city editor of the Detroit Times (though frequently out on assignment as one of the paper's best reporters). A six-footer, with a genial twang acquired through years of telephoning to city editors, his chief interest outside news and the Guild is his 120-acre farm near Detroit. He drilled its well himself, is now building a dock...