Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Exactly two hours after the Western Electric settlement officially ended the nation's only major strike, 3,800 members of the Foremen's Association of America started another by walking out of three Ford plants in Detroit...
...Mother's Day, Edgar A. ("Eddie") Guest ground out his daily "pome" in the Detroit Free Press...
...this sort of banal jingling, 65-year-old Eddie Guest was hard to beat, at least as far as the Free Press's circulation department was concerned. But in the rival Detroit News, 58-year-old Anne Campbell, a grandmother herself, did her level best...
...folksy sentiment had won a public of its own. Fifteen hundred of her fans gathered in the Masonic Temple for a silver anniversary. There were special tables full of people whose causes she had supported: the Salvation Army, the Old Newsboys, the Michigan Crippled Children's Hospital. Detroit's Mayor Edward J. Jeffries saluted her. The president of Wayne University, David D. Henry, said that "she has helped to make our town great...
Scouts from 13 big-league ball clubs (only Detroit, Cleveland and the Philadelphia Athletics were unrepresented) will probably be around for Bob's graduation in June, when he will be fair game. They will be willing to pay him a fat bonus-maybe as high as $25,000-for deciding to sign up with a big-league team. Right now Bob Hansen is indicating no preference, but as a matter of pure sentiment he has always been a New York Giant...