Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Main inaccuracy of the census was obviously the fact that, while it included the first month of Recession, unemployment has grown more acute in the last month. Current unofficial estimates of the total number of workers who have lost their jobs since September average 2,000,000. In Detroit last week, in the biggest mass layoff of Recession, President William S. Knudsen of General Motors announced that 30.000 of the company's 235,000 employes would be laid off as of January 3 and that employes who remained on the payroll would operate on a threeday, 24-hr, week...
...Ford himself had nothing to say last week, nor did Son Edsel, although the arrival of the decision made him three-quarters of an hour late to the Detroit combined performance of the Yale Dramatic Club and Whiffenpoof songsters.* Elated U. A. W. President Homer Martin dashed off a wire to Harry Bennett asking for conference. Said Mr. Martin: "You need not fear a conference of this sort. We do not believe in force or violence, as you evidently do." As translated by reporters into printable English, tough Mr. Bennett's comment was "Phooey...
...Mendenhall, 34, a protégé and collaborator of Teachers College's famed Professor Harold Rugg. Dr. Mendenhall went from Kansas to the Lincoln School as a research man in 1928, conceived Building America with Stanford's Professor Paul R. Hanna. It is regularly used in Detroit, Sacramento and Denver classes, in many a school and reference library elsewhere. About 110,000 copies of the entire series have been distributed. For the Power issue the largest single customer was the power industry itself, which took 1,000 copies...
...Connie Mack started to sell out. Owner Thomas Yawkey of the Boston Red Sox paid him almost half a million dollars to get Jimmy Foxx, Roger Cramer, Bob Grove, Rube Walberg, Max Bishop. The Chicago White Sox bought Jimmy Dykes, Al Simmons, George Haas, George Earnshaw. Detroit took Mickey Cochrane to manage the Tigers. In 1936 Connie Mack, not looking very different from the way he looked 22 years before (see cut, p. 35), started rebuilding the Athletics...
...talks that week in Chicago, Younghill Kang (The Grass Roof) in Wheeling, W. Va., and Captain John D. Craig (Adventure in Haiti) in Ann Arbor, Mich. In addition there will be a number of lectures belonging to the Great Question Mark school of public speaking, with David Seabury in Detroit asking What Makes Us Seem So Queer?; John T. Flynn in Elizabeth, N. J., What's the Matter With Us Now?; Stanley High in Boston, Where Do We Go From Here?; and Vicki Baum in Salt Lake City, Why Be Afraid? The week when all this takes place will...