Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When students at the University of Detroit have an hour free from class and time on their hands, what do they do? Detroit is one of the few Jesuit universities that are co-educational and that question has lately been bothering Dean of Women Constance T. Maier and Dean of Men Joseph A. Luther, S. J. Last week Dean Luther issued a ruling: "Mixed groups who leave the campus during class hours in cars or frequent adjoining restaurants will be subject to disciplinary action...
...make-up men & scenic artists and members of eight other crafts, allied in Federated Motion Picture Crafts, continued on strike for union recognition and closed shops (TIME, May 10). With the help of strikebreakers, cameras ground away as usual, but over Hollywood hung the ominous air of strike-torn Detroit. Strikers, working in three shifts of 1,000 pickets each, shuffled around the studios, scuffled with non-strikers, tried to intimidate actors and others passing through the picket lines by snapping their photographs for a "scabs' gallery." Worst violence occurred when a gang of 50 men with hammers...
...Cleveland, the estate of Henry C. Wakeman, Detroit lingerie salesman who was fatally injured when he slipped on a cake of soap in a Cleveland hotel bathtub, lost a suit to collect industrial compensation for his death when Judge George P. Baer ruled that a traveling salesman's work does not include taking a bath...
Five-man teams: Krakow Furniture Co. (Detroit...
...Detroit, Mrs. Violet Crocker was dropped from relief rolls after she had bought a new spring wardrobe, packed up to go to the Coronation...