Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...police and Laurence Ryan of the State's Attorney's office had gone to Toronto to bring Martin Insull back to U. S. justice. At 3 a. m. on their return trip their train rolled across the U. S.-Canadian border and came to a stop in Detroit. U. S. Immigration Inspector Joseph Als, going through the cars, roused 64-year-old Martin Insull from sleep. Was he a U. S. citizen? No, he was a British citizen who had resided 40 years in the U. S. How long had he been away? Seventeen months...
Upping of steel wages was no altruistic gesture by steelmasters. The industry as a whole is still losing money. Smart for once, they had their eyes on two places-Washington and Detroit. In his NRA speech last month President Roosevelt had asked a 10% cut in hours and a 10% increase in wages by all industry. By its action last week Steel was shouldering forward to take its place beside Automobiles as a prize pupil in the President's class on recovery...
Last week President Roosevelt's three-man labor board to bring peace to the automobile industry settled down to its work in Detroit. Its appointment fortnight ago had served to avert what threatened to be the worst strike under NRA-a strike that would have thrown 200,000 men out of work, closed hundreds of plants, cut production in dozens of other industries, crippled the Midwest and seriously retarded the President's whole recovery program. Now the board's primary job was to untangle the unionization dispute between the motorcar makers and the American Federation of Labor...
Within 48 hours after their appointment Dr. Wolman convened his fellow members in Detroit, and began to receive a half hundred union complaints against discrimination by automobile manufacturers. Promptly he made two announcements: 1) "Rules of evidence will not bother us. We will . . . let the men tell their stories in their own words." 2) "In order to avoid friction . . . there should not be any solicitation for membership in either unions or company representation plans during working hours...
...Washington last year was at right field, Jonathan Stone for old Goose Goslin. The Yankees had two rookie infielders. Babe Ruth planned, in what will doubtless be his last playing season, to make his 700th homerun, get his 2,000th base on balls. Manager Joe Cronin of Washington called Detroit the team to beat. Detroit's new Manager & Catcher Mickey Cochrane, bought for $100,000 from Philadelphia, was not so sure. He and his men lost two games in a row to the Athletics, generally dismantled last autumn because they failed to make money. For the Chicago White...