Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that her good friend Frances Perkins was born near Boston, Mr. Hoffman suggested that it would be well if Madam Perkins "kept her mouth shut." He purported to quote President Roosevelt to the effect that if Communism broke out in the U. S., it would first reveal itself in Detroit, announced that the Russians had already renamed Detroit in honor of John L. Lewis-presumably Lewisgrad...
William Watts ("Bill") Chaplin, who put his Ethiopian war observations into a book called Blood and Ink and who learned about sit-down strikes in France last year, is covering the Labor front for Hearst's Universal Service. His itinerary since January: Flint, Detroit, Lansing, Pontiac, Oshawa (Canada), Pittsburgh, South Chicago, Johnstown, Youngstown. He, like many another 1937 Labor newshawk, rarely has time to use anything except airplanes. Universal's Labor specialist in Washington is handsome Eugene Kelly who turned reporter after studying for the priesthood at the North American College in Rome...
...their fairness, though his boss, Colonel Frank Knox, has no love for the C.I.O. Lahey, who previously had been covering the local garbage situation, was at the theatre seeing an Ibsen play on the evening of Jan. 2 when he was told to take the midnight train to Detroit. There was hardly a day from then on that Chicago did not see a Lahey story from the strike front. Once he got home for a few days and promptly went out to cover the Fansteel plant battle so closely that he inhaled a load...
...Detroit reporters and photographers have learned to expect gas and clubs as a matter of routine. During the Flint strike Reporter Gay Girardin of the Detroit Times was at a phone inside the Chevrolet plant talking to his city editor when rioting started. Tear and nausea gas clouds rolled in on him as he continued phoning his story, coughing and vomiting. Once he looked up to see a striker coming at him with a club. Girardin stopped the club in mid-air with a "Hello Tony." Most thoughtful Labor expert to emerge in Detroit has been lanky, young, bespectacled Reporter...
...German books. No ordinary janitor, Adam Denhardt was a German teacher for 33 years until he was pensioned off in 1924. When he and his wife Agate went to the U. S., leaving their three daughters behind, the only job he could get was one as "house father" at Detroit's Protestant German Orphan Home. A school janitor for the past eleven years, old Mr. Denhardt began studying nights at the University of Detroit three years ago. He wrote his thesis, in French, on Victor Hugo et la Nature...