Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Order of Railway Conductors pulled a five-day "token" strike in the big Louisville, Cleveland and Minneapolis-St. Paul railroad terminals to win 17-month-old pay demands. Big mass-production unions, however, were now getting together charts and statistics to support their claims to lusty wage boosts. Phil Murray's 1,000,000 United Steelworkers were ready to demand a generous increase from the steel industry on Nov. 1; the rubber and textile unions had similar plans. The big (60,000 members) Local 600 of the United Automobile Workers was already talking about striking the Ford Motor...
...Chicago, 23-year-old Polly Riley of Fort Worth capped an eight-year effort to win the Women's Western Amateur Golf Championship by doing just that, 4 and 3, over 24-year-old Mae Murray of Rutland...
Oklahoma. Candidate William O. Coe felt there was something fishy about the way Johnston Murray, Alfalfa Bill's son, defeated him in the Democratic gubernatorial primary run-off by only 1,009 votes. So he demanded a recount. The recount gave him only 47 added votes - which cost him, since he had to pay expenses of $16,625, about $353.72 apiece...
Utah. Eighty-one contestants, who don't like to be called "barnyard golfers," gathered under the poplar trees at the county fairgrounds in Murray for the National Horseshoe Pitchers Association of America's Ninth World's Championship tourney. Even to qualify they had to throw 200 shoes, and score ringers two thirds of the time. Thirty-five qualified. The winner, for the fourth successive year: Fernando Isais of Los Angeles...
With the largest primary vote ever given a candidate for Oklahoma's governorship, Johnston Murray, son of tobacco-chewing, brimstone-spitting old ex-Governor "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, topped a field of four other Democrats by a plurality of nearly 90,000, but he also faced a runoff. A night-school lawyer who has never before run for public office, 47-year-old Murray has been a printer, reporter, salesman, cattle dealer, cotton-gin operator, farmer, interpreter, tool dresser, truck dispatcher, oilfield roustabout, and plant manager. His campaign slogan: "Just Plain Folks...