Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...differs from current labor forays into politics such as that of the C. I. O. in Detroit (see p. 17), by being less headlong, throwing its weight strategically behind candidates already in the field in preference to putting up its own. Last week this policy was emphasized by A. L. P. bigwigs convening at the Claridge to lay plans for the future. This year A. L. P.'s new assemblymen will be expected to plump for a fairly well defined platform including: 1) ratification of the child labor amendment, 2) a "little" Wagner-Steagall housing bill for New York...
Last week, in a record turn-out for a purely municipal election, Detroit demonstrated its preference for the city clerk over the onetime attorney general 261,957-to-154,048. That was no surprise. What confounded virtually all the political prophets was the complete rout of the C. I. O. candidates for seats on the nine-man city council...
Notable was the fact that the National Hockey League has the same set-up this year as last: American Division teams in Detroit, New York, Chicago, Boston; International Division teams in Toronto, Montreal (two), New York...
This was promptly demonstrated when. in their opening game last week, Bill Stewart's Blackhawks took a 3-to-0 licking from the revived New York Americans. On the same night the Detroit Red Wings, out to defend the Stanley Cup they have held for two years, played an inauspicious 2-to-2 tie with the Toronto Maple Leafs. Meanwhile, as the other teams in the circuit started their 48-game schedules, Howie Morenz Jr., 11, hung on his wall a hockey stick covered with autographs of his late father's friends, who had taken care...
Charlie Gehringer, 34, of the Detroit Tigers, who for twelve years has quietly functioned as one of baseball's ablest second basemen and last season led his league in batting (.371), as the American League's Most Valuable Player. New York Yankee Outfielder Joe Di Maggio, 22, placed second...