Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gone. "This under Socialism, comrades!" sputtered a party official. "Sheer capitalistic acquisitiveness!" On leaving Gorky, the brothers traveled 18,000 miles across the U.S.S.R., came home via Japan. At 28, Walter Reuther had completed his education and was ready to get to work in an auspicious environment, Depression-haunted Detroit...
...Strike! Strike!" Labor discontent in the auto industry was erupting in sloppy, bloody, sporadic strikes. Reuther set out in 1936 to organize West Side Detroit for the struggling automobile workers union...
...wonder, still looks boyish: no grey threads his reddish hair, no bags encase his eyes, no bulges swell his lean flanks. As a machinist, after a 13-hour factory day, he used to do calisthenics or swim at the Y. After a speech or meeting away from Detroit, he used to hike six or seven miles late at night before going to bed. A powerhouse of physical energy, he bounces and bounds with swift, long strides...
...life, Reuther is usually too preoccupied for leisurely pleasures. When Miami was suggested last winter as the site for the A.F.L.-C.I.O. unity meeting, Reuther was distressed. "Why, I can't go to Miami," he cried. "It wouldn't look right." Some years ago he assembled his Detroit staff to meet two visiting Congressmen, one of whom remarked archly about the collection of secretarial beauties. Walter looked up and stared at them in surprise before it dawned on him that the Congressman was right. Said one of the girls later: "I honestly think it was the first time...
...first, during the early, hectic organizing drives, they lived in Detroit's Knickerbocker Apartments, a nest of friendly, frenzied C.I.O. officials. "We hardly ever slept at all," Reuther remembers. Thugs once beat him up in his own apartment. Later he moved to the north side, where a gun blast fired by a would-be assassin ripped into his right arm. Reuther lost blood copiously but never lost consciousness. "I decided," he said later, "to fight harder than ever...