Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Labor was in high dudgeon last week over the handling of mobilization. To Washington officials stormed the A.F.L.'s William Green and the C.I.O.'s Philip Murray to file their complaints. They saw President Truman, Mobilizer Charles Wilson and Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston, whose big hello and sympathetic ear did little to calm them down. The mobilization program, grumbled Green and Murray, was being run by big business. To this, both Johnston and Wilson had an answer: they were willing to give a top union leader a top job if he took it on full-time just...
...MURRAY NAMED TO DUKE POST...
William D. Murray, athletic director and football coach at the University of Delaware, was yesterday named head football coach at Duke University...
Gone Again. Cyrus S. Ching's nine-man Wage Stabilization Board, which is also under Valentine, was making no more progress toward stabilization than DiSalle. The C.I.O.'s Philip Murray and A.F.L. leaders warned Ching that they would not deal with his board until it was free of control by Valentine and until Ching had power to act on his own. Furthermore, they were willing to talk wage controls only after prices had been fully stabilized...
Slot Spots. In Jacksonville, Jock Murray thumbed through 8,000 federal license records and uncovered 627 illegal slot machines in Florida.* The Tribune printed the names of the owners. Other Florida papers (notably Miami's Herald and News'), which had long conducted off & on campaigns against crime, took inspiration from the Tribune and stepped up their crusades. Under pressure, Governor Lansing Warren fired two sheriffs and two constables and warned Florida's police to crack down on gambling...