Word: flints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...article of the U.A.W.'s national Democratic faith, and Hayworth found himself accused of treason. Big Labor refused to back Hayworth against Chamberlain in 1956, this year entered the Democratic primary against Hayworth with its own candidate. Hayworth headquarters accused the labor leaders of "Nazi-like" action, and Flint's C.I.O. Council President Norman Bully roared in rage: "It is the straw that breaks the camel's back! Anybody who can compare the unions with the Nazis is not a friend of labor." Hayworth easily won the primary, but Big Labor's billboards in the Sixth...
...week, found him still going hard in the Genesee County town of Grand Blanc at 7 that night. He suddenly realized that he was already go minutes late for a dinner date with his wife Charlotte, even then waiting for him in front of the Durant Hotel, in nearby Flint. Chamberlain leaped into his red-white-and-blue Chevrolet station wagon, which he uses along with his trailer, and sped toward Flint at 60 m.p.h. His pace had been exhausting, but Chuck Chamberlain seemed to thrive on it, and his words tumbled out in a turmoil of enthusiasm...
...studied a typewritten timetable of industrial plant and shopping-center openings and closings. Said he, ruefully: "We'll only have about 20 minutes to eat-we have to be in Flushing by 8. I want to catch that crowd at the shopping center. We have to be in Flint by 9-there's a real good shopping center there. Then we may get home by 11 and that will give me a couple of hours to catch up on paper work so I can get to bed by I -always like to turn in by 1. Then...
Then there was the $1,000,000 loan he arranged from the Michigan Conference of Teamsters Welfare Fund to a real-estate company developing 1,270 acres in Flint. Fitzgerald, according to earlier testimony, pocketed a $15,750 "finder's fee" for arranging the loan. A title and guarantee officer supervising the funds in escrow said Fitzgerald rearranged the escrow agreement to allow some of the money to be used for curious purposes, e.g., the purchase of a bull and nine cows to give the Flint development a rural atmosphere...
...president of the world's biggest industrial company was 65, and the citizens of Flint, Mich, gathered to do him honor. As General Motors' Harlow Curtice waited in the wings of Flint's Industrial Mutual Association auditorium, an orchestra played You, Gee, But You're Wonderful, You, and colored balloons floated above the linen-covered tables. Then up stepped Curtice, the very model of a modern American optimist, with some cheery predictions for the future. Said Curtice, who has been more often right than wrong: In 1959 the auto industry will sell about 5,500.000 cars...