Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These goings-on in Detroit last week were in connection with a strike against big, rich Briggs Manufacturing Co., which makes automobile bodies for Chryslers, Plymouths, Dodges, De Sotos, Packards, Lincolns. Because of the strike Chrysler Corp. had to close ten of its plants in Michigan and Indiana, the Lincoln (Ford) plant was closed in Detroit and 70,000 employes were idle, including those of parts suppliers dependent upon the automakers...
...sometimes signs State papers in the Dickinson name. Himself and Colleague Moyer he modestly characterizes as "just a couple of fellows hanging on to the public tit." Other Dickinson indispensables include: smooth, young Secretary Leslie Butler-who siphons callers so carefully into his master's office that the Detroit Citizens' League once complained: "Honest citizens can't get in" -and Personal Secretary Margaret Shaw, whom, the Governor says, God sent him. ("I know there is a girl in my office answering letters in exactly the language I would use. I snooped one time, and there were...
Frustrated civil-service advocates promptly asked Circuit Judge Clyde I. Webster in Detroit to declare 1) that "Lieutenant Governor Dickinson" has no legal claim to be Governor, 2) the civil-service wrecker was unconstitutional, illegally signed by a nonexistent Governor. Their grounds: the State constitution provides 1) in the event of the Governor's death or incapacity, the Lieutenant Governor shall serve "until the disability ceases," 2) the Governor shall fill vacated offices by appointment. One William P. Long of Detroit maintains that Luren Dickinson should have taken the gubernatorial office, then ended the "disability" by appointing another...
...York 2, Detroit...
...hard facts were that Detroit expected a virtual shutdown this week, strike or no strike, Decoration Day or no Decoration Day (the same week in 1937 car production was 131,000), that the steel business placed during the May price cuts was mostly options, not orders, some of them merely verbal, and few even specified the size and composition of the steel wanted; therefore the present increase in production is mainly going into inventory...