Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit, bar owners complained to the police about police who bar-hop in squads, cadging bottles of whiskey...
...represented 1,200 unionized pottery employes in a simple suit for back overtime pay (see LETTERS). They had asked to be paid for the 14 minutes they spent on company property before their paid shifts began and after they ended, a total of up to 56 minutes a day. Detroit's Federal Judge Frank A. Picard, able and conscientious, thought the question was not so simple. He appointed a special master to find out what the workers...
...United Automobile Workers. He had a huge surprise for his four-year-old daughter Linda-a tiny electric phonograph with two albums of miniature records. And he was due for a surprise himself. His wife, May, would have sour cream pancakes for breakfast in their neat, white Detroit home...
...nice-looking young woman, but handsome is that handsome does. Detroit police had picked her up for stealing and arson. When they saw her FBI record, they hastily turned her over to the Wayne County General Hospital as criminally insane...
Holiday Business. In Detroit, 225-pound union President Herbert Thompson, with an eye to rising food costs, set forth the new wage demands of the Santa Claus Union (C.I.O.), explained: "They like us chubby, and we have to eat to stay this way." In Richmond, Ind., Santa Claus Clifford Oldham, after listening to two-year-old Patty Pike's Christmas wishes, handed her an apple, got it right back. Said Patty: "Peel it." In Newark, Santa Claus Herman Quaas was haled into court. The charge: refusal to take the city's health test for all Santa Clauses...