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Word: detroit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Victor Reuther decided to skip a special union conference in downtown Detroit and spend a quiet evening at home. The kids were sent up to bed as usual after dinner. A couple of friends dropped in to chat a while. After they left, Vic Reuther, a top policy strategist in the mighty C.I.O. United Auto Workers, picked up a morning paper and sat down in a straight-backed wooden chair to read. His wife Sophie lounged comfortably on a sofa a few feet away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shot in the Dark | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

Keep Fighting. Thus last week a cowardly attack was repeated in Detroit almost to the last detail. Thirteen months before, an assassin had fired a shotgun through a kitchen window in the home of Vic's elder brother Walter, and shot down the cocky, redheaded president of U.A.W. Walter Reuther's right arm is still crippled from the blast that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shot in the Dark | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

Richard David Rohr, '50, of Detroit, and Adams House received a $50 prize for showing the greatest promise among undergraduates who concentrate in History and Literature. Another History and Literature prize of $50 was won by Carl Rudolph Triebs '51 of Milwaukee and Little Hall for making the most notable progress during the past year among Sophomore concentrators in the department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Award of 7 Annual Liberal Arts Prizes for 1948-1949 Announced | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

Cleveland (Vernon) 8, Boston 1 Washington (Calvert) 12, St. Louis 3 New York (Marshall) 9, Chicago 7 Detroit (Newhouser) 4, Philadelphia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Sports | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

Chicago (Wight) 2, Detroit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Sports | 5/31/1949 | See Source »

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