Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit last week Harry H. Bennett, one of Ford Motor Co.'s top executives, reluctantly confirmed a story which had leaked into the press after a full week of secrecy. As personnel director and chief of Ford's super-efficient plant police, tough Mr. Bennett is the man who has done the nation's most famed job of nipping unionism in the bud. One day last fortnight he was motoring to his office at the Ford Administration Building at Dearborn when he passed a parked car, recognized its five occupants as men who had been trying...
...Mayor [of Detroit] and the Governor [of Michigan] have not said they could not handle the situation," returned Senator Bailey, "but actions speak louder than words. They have not handled...
...first Ford sit-down in an assembly plant at Kansas City. Grievance was a regular seasonal layoff of some 300 workers in which unionists claimed that long-employed union men were being dismissed while newer non-unionists stayed on. The sit-down lasted only 25 hours. Down from Detroit flew a U. A. W. vice president and several Ford officials, quickly negotiated a settlement restoring all jobs and guaranteeing seniority rights, got the men out of the plant. Plainly the union was not yet ready to start its big push against Ford. Its leaders were already having all the trouble...
...contestants had good cause to wish the officials had rejected it because Hock Sim Ong had beaten them with discouraging ease. In the final, with a socialite crowd of 5.000 seated around the court, Hock Sim Ong's opponent was tall, 24-year-old Walter Kramer of the Detroit Badminton Club, rated by professionals as the ablest U. S. amateur for the last two years. The first game went to Kramer, 15-10. In the second Sim Ong got a lead of 4-1, then apparently forgot all he knew about the game while his opponent...
...broke out all over the U. S. in patches. From Canada, which currently has about 25 of the world's best 30 singles players, including Professional Jack Purcell who two years ago beat Hollywood's Willard for the "world's championship," the game spread quickly to Detroit, Chicago, Seattle. Badminton literature began when Squash-Badminton appeared in 1934, grew when American Lawn Tennis added a badminton section last autumn, came of age last week when the national championships made badminton in daily papers jump from the society to the sports pages. Average badminton bat weighs...