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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 »

Young Progressives of America chapters at both the uptown and downtown branches of City College of New York have been suspended in the last month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: C.C.N.Y. Drops 2 Y.P.A. Units for Rules Infractions | 5/27/1949 | See Source »

...downtown branch, Y.P.A. was indefinitely suspended on May 19, for 1) not submitting leaflets in advance; 2) not giving advance notice about an "open meeting," at which Miss Jessica Smith, editor of Soviet Russia Today, spoke; and 3) violating the rule prohibiting solicitations on campus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: C.C.N.Y. Drops 2 Y.P.A. Units for Rules Infractions | 5/27/1949 | See Source »

...Dramatic Club discovered the impracticality of hiring a downtown theater when it had to appeal to every friendly wallet after plummeting into debt in its production of "The Survivors" at the Plymouth Theater last spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC Forced Into Sanders Again in Fall | 5/18/1949 | See Source »

...Steel Corp. has a 22-story building in downtown Manhattan that houses its main offices and the conference rooms in which much of its important business is transacted. Yet for 48 years, the important business of the annual stockholders' meeting has been transacted across the Hudson River in Hoboken, N.J., in a small bank building.* Last week at Big Steel's annual meeting, only 350 stockholders (out of a total of 228,000) bothered to come. But not even all of them could find a place to sit; for three sweltering hours 50 of them had to stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Stockholders' Revolt | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

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