Word: flints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jackson is on the secretarial staff of the Quaker organization which fed 2,000,000 children in Germany after the War, and now is carrying on rescue work in Spain. The Friends also maintain work camps for college graduates and undergraduates in Flint, Michigan, the Tennessee Valley, Ponncraft, Pennsylvania, and on the delta of the Mississippi River...
Murphy. The Judiciary sub-committee did not bother to call Frank Murphy before approving him as Attorney General. But he, whose nonenforcement of a court order to eject sit-down strikers from a General Motors plant at Flint in 1937 had been cited against him, was not satisfied. He asked to appear to give "the real, inside story" of his sit-down conduct, which he had never told because "I never wanted to impair my position as mediator." Now that he was no longer Governor he would speak...
Frank Murphy's sister says that he "looks more like Jesus Christ every day." Before the committee he looked like a man who, his mind on highest things, has suffered and forgiven much. He told how, having been asked by Flint authorities to back up the court order, "I did not ignore that writ. ... On the contrary, I warned the union representatives that I would enforce it." He merely delayed enforcement over the week-end (the writ was issued on a Friday) because he believed a negotiated settlement was imminent. National Guardsmen stood by, and sure enough a settlement...
...Strike-of-the-week was at Flint, Mich. Union employes of General Motors' Fisher Body plant No. 1 voted 3,434 to 433 to strike, surprisingly walked out instead of sitting down. Out of work with them were 2,500 Fishermen. In other related plants 5,000 walked out. G. M. officials complained that U. A. W. had violated its contract by short-circuiting the usual grievance procedure. U. A. W. spokesmen said they had grieved per contract without avail. The strikers wanted to be paid at flat day rates instead of by piece work. Before making the change...
John Gelvin, Gene Keith, Red Navin, Jack Penson, Les Pitchford, and Ed Rothschild give the squad a wealth of height which was lacking last year. Ed Buckley, John Flint, Mike Rice, John Righy, and Joe Romano are some of the other men who have faced the Varsity in the past few days...