Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thomas Kennedy, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers, promoted next year from Lieutenant Governor to Governor of Pennsylvania. 3) to see New York State's American Labor party develop into "a major political party" and 4) to see the "C. I. 0. ticket win in Detroit tomorrow...
...Lewis' interest in Detroit primaries was immediate. The occasion was C. I. O.'s first major effort to put its own candidates in office. Backed by Labor's Non-Partisan League, now nothing more than C. I. O.'s national political arm, the United Automobile Workers proposed to bid for control of the fourth city of the land. Detroit's charter provides for a nonpartisan primary with a run-off election. Since most of the municipal jobs are appointive the campaign hinges on the mayoralty and the nine seats on the common council, which...
...Johnson, Schenectady, New York; Albert P. Heusner, York, Nebraska; Joseph H. Phillips, Dearborn, Michigan; Francis McC. Ingersoll, Tecumsch, Nebraska; Calvin T. Klopp, Reading, Pennsylvania; John B. Hickam, Washington, D. C.; Bernard Rapoport, Hartford, Connecticut; Charles W. Sorenson, Logan, Utah; Frederick F. Ross, Grosse Pointe, Michigan; Donald N. Sweeney Jr., Detroit, Michigan; Russell Wigh, Hoboken, New Jersey; Francis T. Gophart, Bronxville, New York; and Bernard German, Newark, New Jersey...
...doing whispering in my ear?" Said Willet: "Oh, that's C. J. [Connick] telling you the window is no good." In a recent job, a Spanish War window given by the widow of Secretary of War Russell Alexander Alger (1897-99) to the Grosse Point Memorial Church near Detroit, Willet showed Theodore Roosevelt charging up San Juan Hill. When he learned that Mrs. Alger did not like Roosevelt, he merely changed Roosevelt's face to Alger...
...Detroit, a policeman halted a car that had been careening down the street, arrested bloody Ben Ryser and irate wife. Said Mr. Ryser in court: "I tried to get her to leave a beer garden. I had to coax her away with a bottle of whiskey. She fell asleep in the car, but woke up near home and asked for a drink. ... I was trying to get home but I was relieved when the police came alongside. She had picked up a piece of glass and was stabbing at me with...