Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit a temporary injunction was issued this week restraining the Waiters, Waitresses & Cooks Union from "packing" Brennan, Fitzgerald & Sinks Cafeterias. "Packing" consists of buying coffee, occupying all the chairs in a restaurant...
Swamped with work a few weeks ago, a private secretary named Thelma Goldman in the Detroit headquarters of the United Automobile Workers asked for help, was promptly provided with a trim young blonde fresh from a secretarial school. Put to work on routine typing, the new stenographer tended strictly to business. After a fortnight she went to Thelma Goldman, said: "Maybe you'll think I'm dumb, Thelma, but I still don't know what you people manufacture...
Last week Detroit was chuckling over a new U. A. W. story. Of the 250 Detroit members of the United Office and Professional Workers of America, a three-month-old C. I. O. affiliate, about 50 are employed in the Hofmann Building offices of United Automobile Workers of America. Led by Bookkeeper Muriel Jenkins the U. A. W.'s office workers last week presented formal demands to the U. A. W. management. Like the good unionists they are, the office workers wanted such things as the closed shop, vacations with pay, a 35-hr, week, time & one-half...
Engaged-Norman Selby ("Kid Mc-Coy"), 63, onetime (1896-97) welterweight champion of the world; to Mrs. Sue Cobb Cowley, 43, cousin of Humorist Irvin S. Cobb; in Detroit. This will be his ninth marriage. In 1933 Selby was paroled from San Quentin Penitentiary in the custody of Harry Bennett, personnel director of Ford Motors Co., after serving seven years for the murder of his mistress. This year he was given a full pardon, is now head of Ford's Garden Department, in charge of 15,000 employes' gardens...
...proposed merger of Detroit's Motor Products Corp. with Detroit's body-building Briggs Manufacturing Co. (TIME. Dec. 21): A Vote by the Briggs stock-holders last week to drop the plan...