Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mass picketing by 500 other C.I.O. unionists, the assembly line continued to roll, though at considerably reduced speed. The significant automobile labor news of the week was made not in St. Louis,, not in any motor plant but in the minds of U. A. W. leaders in and around Detroit...
...President Homer Martin and his "Progressives" at a special U. A. W. convention to be called by rank & file petition. But the terrific backstage struggle for union control appeared so significant that the country's No. 1 labor reporter, Louis Stark of the New York Times, went to Detroit for the entire week...
...picturizing its report, Los Angeles followed the example of Detroit, Chicago, New Orleans, New York City. Originators of this trend were New York's Superintendent Harold George Campbell and his secretary, Howard A. Shiebler, 36, part of whose own education was acquired as a newspaper correspondent and co-author of one of George White's Scandals. Secretary Shiebler decided two years ago that "the law requires the superintendent to make an annual report but does not require that it be dull." With the Board of Education photographer. Ambrose J. Hickey, he spent six months touring New York City...
...write a book about a minister, helped him gather material, and was appalled by the outcome, Elmer Gantry-Bill Stidger is big, baldish, hearty in the manner of preachers who did Y. M. C. A. work in the War. In the early days of radio he broadcast news from Detroit and still says: "I consider myself a reporter, not a preacher. The earliest Christians were reporters who simply told to others what they saw, heard and experienced, and that is what I try to do." Currently he preaches on Sundays at Boston's Morgan Memorial Church, which...
...last week Tucker Smith was not in Katonah but Detroit, where since last summer he has been helping educate members of the United Automobile Workers Union. With U. S. labor unions enjoying their greatest prosperity, Chairman Julius Hochman of Brookwood's board of directors announced last week that Brookwood's doors had been closed, perhaps permanently. Not only was the college unable to raise its $30,000 budget for the coming year, but it had unpaid debts. Having survived Labor's poverty, Brookwood was killed by Labor's prosperity...