Edwin A. Lahey

than most of the people in the C.I.O., not to mention the newspapermen, because my best friends after I moved to Washington, were Philip Murray, the president of the C.I.O., and Lee Pressman, the general counsel of the C.I.O.

[5]Shortly after a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard 1939, Lahey investigated an Illinois state auditor, which resulted in the official's imprisonment.

In 1959, when Chicago Daily News sold to Marshall Field III, Lahey remained with Knight Newspapers as chief correspondent.

In 1951, during tense negotiations between Walter Reuther of the United Auto Workers and George Meany of the AFL–CIO, Lahey wrote, "the final act of complete labor unity awaits only the retirement or passing of three onetime cronies, Green, Murray, and John L. Lewis" and "competitive civil war" in labor organizing.

"[1] In 1978, when the Chicago Daily News closed, the New York Times listed Lahey among the newspaper's top "reporting talent.

"[8] In 1996, the New York Times noted Lahey's reluctance to use news leaks: "The background interview is a vicious device because it lets officials escape responsibility.