Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...class and the employing class have nothing in common." It would make only one bargain with employers?complete surrender of industrial control to the workers. A split soon reft the I. W. W. ranks. William D. ("Big Bill") Haywood of Chicago headed the "direct action" party. The so-called "Detroit Wing" was doctrinaire, not determined about political action. After Mr. Haywood's flight from the U. S. in 1921 to escape jail, the political action clauses of the I. W. W. constitution were erased. The "one big union" motif is all that remains. Wobblies now express their political ideas mostly...
...Detroit, last week, Baritone John Charles Thomas arrived late for a rehearsal with the Detroit Symphony. The orchestra, busy under Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch, would not stop immediately to go over the part of the program it was to share with Baritone Thomas, saw instead its star soloist stride angrily from the hall. This, explained Manager Jefferson B. Webb, was the reason for the last-minute substitution of Tenor Richard Crooks...
...those unheard" the public alse over so gently implied. And Mr. Ford replies with better lines, quiet, more power, more speed, in a still veiled Juggernaut of a motor millenium that can butcher pedestrians to make a Sudbury holiday, and buy the antiques of a more restful past. A Detroit Isis is born again with renewed vigor in the American pageant. They used to laugh at the car that now is dead. "But there is no death. There is only laughter," said Mr. O'Neil's Lazarus...
Atlanta, Ga. Asheville, N. C. Biloxi, Miss. Brunswick, Ga. Charleston, S. C. Chattanooga, Tenn. Cleveland, Ohio Corpus Christi, Tex. Dallas, Tex. Detroit, Mich. Erie, Pa. Greensboro, Lakeland, Fla. Los Angeles, Calif. New Orleans, La. Norfolk, Portsmouth...
...Other Chevrolet assembling plants are at Detroit, Tarreytown, N. Y., Norwood, Ohio, Buffalo, N. Y., St. Louis, Mo., Janesville, Wis., Oakland, Calif., and Flint, Mich. General Motors' other cars-Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Oakland, Buick, LaSalle and Cadillac-are assembled at their respective factories...