Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Automobile Workers that officials were unable to enter their own offices. Last week, tacitly admitting that he had merely tried to scare the city's authorities, Mr. Ford let it be known that he would reopen in Kansas City as soon as adequate police protection was guaranteed. In Detroit, Harry Bennett, Ford personnel director, announced: "We did not close the plant. It was done by the people of Kansas City. They are the only persons who can bring about the reopening...
...about collective bargaining could have been considerably less expensive if some ground rules had been set up. As it was, the early stages of the conflict resembled very much a ball game without an umpire and with everybody in the grandstands hollering advice. . . ." Four days later in Detroit, President Homer Martin of C. I. O.'s United Automobile Workers shot back: "Mr. Knudsen's preference for craft unions might be explained by the fact that industrial unions seem to be a little too effective. . . . What evidence of responsibility are employers going to show to guarantee continuity of production...
After being the most publicized Yale footballer since Albie Booth, Larry Kelley last summer turned down a fantastic offer from the Detroit Lions, supposedly because Yale alumni do not yet regard professional football as dignified. Instead, he went to The Peddie School at Hightstown, N. J., to teach history and coach Peddie's strictly amateur football team. He will continue to teach history and coach football, for he will not practice with the Shamrocks. Every Sunday he will fly to Boston, catch whatever passes the Shamrock backs are able to throw him, then fly back to Peddie in ample...
...Manhattan marking the January first of the 1938 automobile year, rival makers were girt for renewed combat on a scale far greater than ever before. Last week it was announced that for the first time since 1929 automobiles and parts rate as No. 1 U. S. export. In Detroit, employment approached the 1929 peak. In Manhattan, the Automobile Manufacturers Association announced that production of 1937 models had totaled 5,110,000 cars and trucks, 12% over 1936, despite strikes. World automobile ownership was at a new high of 41,750,000 motor vehicles...
...youthful, steady-going Ote Mortimer, glad to get back South after a Depression which landed him in a Detroit automobile factory, proves that a sharecropper can still raise a paying crop, can keep from degenerating, enjoy pleasant relations with his landlord and his girl-Depression, drought and Erskine Caldwell notwithstanding. It is only when his desperately squeezed landlord cannot pay him enough to settle down to a normal married life that his girl runs off with a bootlegger and he smashes in Landlord Allard's head with a singletree...