Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Walter Reuther, a canny little ex-Socialist who controls U. A. W.'s huge West Side Local in Detroit, had fathered a plan to abolish dissension by abolishing four of the five vice-presidencies, leaving one for himself. Messrs. Murray & Hillman got the convention to adopt a more complete cure: do away entirely with vice presidents...
...Detroit 3, Toronto...
...Detroit 1, Montreal 0 (overtime...
Because ten-year-old Willie Sprague quarantined and the only magazine mother would let him read was the Yot Companion, which Willie considered "namby-pamby." Willie's devoted uncle, childless Griffith Ogden Ellis, thought up the more virile American Boy and began editing it in Detroit in 1899. Editor Ellis printed red-blooded features and fiction,* kept editing his magazine for a schoolboy Willie while Willie grew to manhood. The War killed Willie Sprague...
...Father Coughlin's weekly Social Justice (price 10?) ceased to print the statement that it was published "By permission of His Superior." Reason: the Detroit archdiocese now considers it a secular, not a Catholic, organ...