Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was one small sign of industrial amity. In Detroit, the United Automobile Workers made peace with Ford on the basis of a 7?-an-hour pay increase and a new pension plan-the first in any major auto contract (see BUSINESS). The plan gave some promise of removing insecurity, which in the end underlies all labor strife. Labor leaders and management both hailed it. But it did not affect the main issue. Across the nation, labor's fight on the Taft-Hartley Act would go on until every sentence had been challenged and bitterly tested...
...other folks got madder. Detroit newspapers, which covered Rose City's uproar for all it was worth, discovered that Scott had been arrested in 1931 for drunken driving in Flint, in fact was converted to religion a short three years ago after a nondescript career as a salesman, industrial worker and beer-truck driver...
Through the Village. The anti-Scottists hoped that would convince the Detroit Methodist conference that Scott should not be reappointed. The conference gave Scott a hearing. Then, disregarding the advice of the committee on appointments, Bishop Raymond J. Wade sent him back to Rose City with exhortations to continue the "war against the liquor interests...
Specialist. In Detroit, Theodore Cole Jr., sandwiching a brisk little medical practice between high-school classes, explained to the cops who interfered, "I read a medical book...
Sunday Evening Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., ABC). The Detroit Symphony, with Pianist Henrietta Schumann: Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1; Ganne's Marche Lorraine', Massenet's Scènes Alsaciennes: Weber's Overture to Der Freischütz. Conductor: Valter Poole...