Word: detroit
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...voters. Today it has only about 25% of the voters. If the five boroughs of the city (coterminous with its five counties) are considered as separate municipalities, the eight most populous cities of the U. S. are in approximate order: 1) Chicago. 2) Brooklyn, 3) Philadelphia, 4) Manhattan, 5) Detroit, 6) The Bronx, 7) Los Angeles, 8) Queens. The difficulties of Tammany's Manhattan political machine can therefore be compared to that of a Philadelphia political machine if it tried to dominate the politics of Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles and also of Richmond, Va. (which has about as large...
...play to this Federal hearing, nonetheless a significant feature of labor-law-employer relations, developed in Detroit last week when Common Pleas Judge Ralph W. Liddy ordered eight Ford "service" men held for trial for assault and battery during the Battle of the overpass. Included was Harry Bennett's subhead of the Ford service department Everett Moore. None sent to trial was Italian...
...refused. Smith, who by this time "entertained no high opinion of the colonel," went back to the frontier. Still hale at 74, the old Indian fighter stormed because he was not allowed to enlist in the War of 1812. Finally he set off alone to join the army at Detroit, turned back only when news of the Americans' easy surrender there convinced him that the army did not amount to much any more...
...thing, it was the week of their annual blowout, the convention of the National Editorial Association, held this year in Detroit, where editors could see for themselves some of the scenes and characters of the year's biggest story, Insurgent Labor. Four hundred of N. E. A.'s 3,000 members arrived for a busy week of speechmaking and fun. Will Loomis of the La Grange 111. Citizen helped start things with the topic. "Where do we go from here?'" Then the editors were shown a cooking school film entitled The Bride Wakes Up and heard from...
Reporter. Awaiting each editor on arrival in his Detroit hotel room was the announcement of another prize and its winner. This was Country Home magazine's award for the best country newspaper correspondent of the year. The winner, who gets $200 and a trip to New York and Washington, was Finlay ("Fin") Petrie, 53, reporter for the Kemmerer, Wyo. Gazette in the woolgathering town of Opal (pop. 50). The envy of his profession, Petrie never got through grammar school. He came to the U. S. from Scotland as an itinerant house painter, turned up in Opal where the general...