Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once Detroit's motormen tittered instead of jittered at news emanating from troublemaking U. A. W. By week's end the Press had given U. A. W. such a needling about its ''anti-union" tactics that the more serious-minded unionists around U. A. W. headquarters were in a high huff. Loudly-and correctly-they pointed out that U. A. W. was already living up to most of the U. O. P. W. A. demands except on minor points like seniority, lighting, restrooms. As for lighting and restrooms, that was up to the Hofmann Building management...
...Once during Detroit's sit-down epidemic last winter, Thelma Goldman went to a nearby beauty shop, found the two attending operators eager to join a union. Explaining that U. A. W. was for automobile workers, not beauticians, Miss Goldman obligingly telephoned the local A. F. of L. headquarters to send up an organizer. Quite willing, the A. F. of L. man only wanted to know one thing: who owned the beauty shop. Proudly the beauticians told Miss Goldman...
...done a thousand times before during the National Labor Relations Board hearings on the Ford Motor Co. case in Detroit (TIME, July 26), Louis J. Colombo Sr., the swart, able Ford counsel, shouted one day last week: "I object." Lawyer Colombo objected to the way the Labor Board counsel was riding a Ford foreman who testified that he fired a man, not for union activity as charged, but for "gazing off into space." But Lawyer Colombo's objection was overruled by Trial Examiner John T. Lindsay. Lawyer Colombo started to say: "I am going to object every time . . ." when...
...LIFE, grumbled that the fountain group would be better named "Wedding in a Nudist Colony." Commissioner Hubert Hoeflinger, onetime tailor, agreed that the Milles tritons should be trousered. Awarded a contract in April 1936, and warmly supported by other members of the Commission, Sculptor Milles worked on serenely in Detroit last week while a St. Louis Star-Times poll of public opinion showed 152 votes for the statues. 552 against them. Excerpts from replies received...
...year of booming automobile sales this reduction by itself might appear small comfort to an old and long stagnant motor-maker. But the true state of Hupp was discernible last week not in its profit & loss account but in the balance sheet and in its big plant off Detroit's East Grand Boulevard. In both of these stagnation lurked no longer...