Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Motors assembly lines were rolling again last week, but the North Chicago fracas furnished spectacular proof that the greatest issue raised by the Motor War of 1937 was still far from settled. As a disturber of U. S. peace, the Sit-Down Strike had just begun to fight. In Detroit alone, eight small factories were held by a total of 2,600 sit-downers, mostly women. President Walter Fry of Detroit's Fry Products Inc. (automobile seat covers) thought up a new twist when he sat down with his 150 sitting employes, ordered dinner for the crowd, promised...
Engaged. Lawrence Peter ("Larry") Fisher, 48, of Detroit's seven bodybuilding Fisher Brothers, husky President of Cadillac Motor Car Co. and a General Motors vice president; and Louise Henry, cinemactress; in Hollywood...
...topic is "The Selective Principle in Education in a Democracy." The President left last Friday and has already spoken before the Harvard Club of Detroit on Saturday, and the Harvard Club of Milwaukee last night...
...clock one evening in Detroit's Hotel Statler, John L. Lewis shook his bushy head and sat up in bed to take his medicine. His secretary put a spoonful in his mouth. Mr. Lewis swallowed and made a face. He had influenza. Shortly a man left the sickroom. Newshawks in the corridor crowded around him asking, "How are things going?" The answer was curt: "Things are getting hot." To newshawks patroling the corridor all evening it seemed that the heating took a long time...
...been reached under the terms of which the Union agrees to end the strike. The signing . . . at 11 a. m. . . ." Before he could finish his statement flashlights were popping, newshawks were rushing out to put the news on the wires. After eight days of almost uninterrupted negotiation in Detroit, the six-week strike, which had paralyzed General Motors and kept 135,000 men out of work, was over...