Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...DETROIT--Washington Redskins 7, Detroit Lions...
...Automobile Workers of America. When President Homer Martin recently lost control of U. A. W. and tried to fix up his machine by throwing out four of its most important cogs-Messrs Richard Frankensteen, Wyndham Mortimer, Ed Hall, George Addes-John L. Lewis sent Mechanics Murray and Hillman to Detroit to interfere. There they persuaded Mr. Martin to let them get up on the driver's seat, one on each side of him, to watch his driving (TIME, Sept. 26). Last week, having steered U. A. W. into a garage, in privacy behind closed doors they effected the repair...
Meantime, U. A. W.'s self-starter began to turn the engine over, putting pressure on motor makers for a 32-hour week to spread-the-work. Result: a strike of 6,000 workers, shutting down Chrysler Corp.'s Plymouth factory in Detroit, and throwing out of work 9,000 Briggs Body Co. workers...
...Detroit, delegates to the biennial convention of the 25-year-old National Woman's Party (Mrs. Stephen H. Pell of New York, national chairman) cheered a plan to raise $1,000,000, to campaign for an Equal Rights amendment to the Constitution. *The plan: to sell red, white & blue Lady Liberty stickers, with a man and a woman balanced evenly on scales held (instead of a lawbook) in Liberty's left hand...
Most conductors know how to play some kind of musical instrument but few musicians are equally good at both playing and conducting. No exception was the late Ossip Gabrilowitsch. Though Detroiters remember him as the high-collared, fidgety conductor of their Detroit Symphony, the musical world remembers him primarily as one of the great pianists of his generation...