Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United Automobile Workers' de mand for recognition as sole bargaining agent for all Chrysler employes, Richard T. Frankensteen, chief automobile union organizer in Detroit, telephoned a code phrase "My hand is up" to his lieutenants in the factories and within two hours all Chrysler plants in Detroit were shut tight (TIME, March...
...going on in the executive offices at the Highland Park plant. Day after the sit-down began, when K. T. Keller, president of the company, and Vice President Herman Weckler drove up to the offices, the gates were closed and pickets kept them from entering. They retired to downtown Detroit. When Adolph Germer, C.I.O. representative, and Organizer Frankensteen arrived at the Chrysler plant for scheduled negotiations they telephoned downtown to Mr. Weckler to say it was all a mistake. The company officers would be admitted to their plant offices if they came back...
...Service. American Airlines has applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission to establish flights from Detroit to Cincinnati and from Detroit to Indianapolis. Pennsylvania-Central has asked permission to inaugurate service between Pittsburgh and Buffalo. Transcontinental & Western Air wants to buy Braniff to get a north-south service to cross its transcontinental route, and Eastern Air covets Braniff's line between Houston and Brownsville, Tex., in order to tie up with Pan American's route in Mexico. Last week the chances of fulfilling most of these ambitions without overhauling the Air Mail Act of 1934 were reduced to zero...
...Hutton II, wiring him on one occasion: "I am sitting on 700 tacks. Where do I get off?" Partner Hutton got him off 600 Tacks at a profit of $2,400. The other customers questioned were those of Jerry McCarthy, a customers' man in Hutton's Detroit office...
Young Bill Hutton was also in the Detroit office but the powerhouse there was Jerry McCarthy, whose clientele included a good representation in the Detroit Tigers. Last month SEC summoned Manager Mickey Cochrane to describe how he bought 1,000 shares of Tack, but the famed catcher had evidently found the game too fast to follow. Asked where he had been in November 1935, he said he thought he had been in Wyoming but that might have been in October. "I travel around so much I don't know where I am half the time," he apologized...