Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Better Look put." President Truman set the tone of his campaign last week in five Labor Day speeches in as many Michigan industrial cities. In Detroit's Cadillac Square he found a tremendous turnout. The C.I.O. and the A.F.L. had worked together to make a show of labor's numbers. Upwards of 100,000 people packed the open plaza and converging streets around City Hall. Harry Truman gave them a blunt and truculent speech on the theme that only he and the Democratic Party had the welfare of the "little man" at heart. Said...
...Demagogic Appeal." Next night, Harold Stassen (after clearing his speech with Tom Dewey) gave the Republican answer. He had almost no crowd-only about 3,000 party workers, who left 2,000 empty seats in Detroit's Masonic Temple. But he had the same radio network...
...hostess, had signed up with The Chief to do a column about what she knows best-celebrities. It started last week (without a byline for the first few days) in the Los Angeles Herald & Express, and is ghostwritten by bespectacled Charles Gentry, onetime drama critic for Hearst's Detroit Times. "I'll write about, famous people, both inside and outside the U.S.," Cobina told a reporter. "After all, my dear, I've known just about everyone...
...schools had one common complaint: too many students. In many a U.S. city and town, schools would operate in two shifts. Youngsters would be going to school in cafeterias, churches, and prefabs -and no immediate relief in sight. Said a Detroit school official: "It will be tough through...
...weeks the corridors of Detroit's General Motors Building buzzed with rumors. President Charles Erwin Wilson had been very busy-and very quiet. G.M.'s top brass, so the gossip went, was in for the biggest shake-up in years. This week the shaking started. The biggest shake of all was given Harlow H. ("Red") Curtice, 55, the slight, reserved general manager of the Buick Motor division. He was moved up to the newly created job of G.M. executive vice president in charge of all nonproduction activities except finance (labor relations, public relations, etc.) The promotion...