Word: frankensteens
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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When he finished his career as a football and dramatics star at University of Dayton in 1932, big, boyish Richard Truman Frankensteen taught school for a year, then went to work for Chrysler Corp. as a body trimmer in the Dodge plant in Detroit. He had worked there before, during high school vacations and for two years while he studied law at night. Soon automobile unionism was burgeoning with NRA, and educated, articulate Dick Frankensteen was a natural leader. When an Automotive Industrial Workers Association was organized in 1934 he became its first secretary. Next year...
About the time he began distinguishing himself in the union's affairs, Dick Frankensteen made the acquaintance of another Dodge employe named John Andrews. The two were soon fast friends. Frankensteen had no automobile, so Andrews drove him to work and to union meetings. Many an hour they spent talking union business. Andrews was hotheaded, always complaining, wanting to call a strike and urging violence. Frankensteen had to cool him off, warning that too great militancy might wreck their young union...
...Andrews and Mrs. Frankensteen liked each other, too, and in the summer of 1935 the two families took a vacation cottage together at a lake. Andrews invited his elderly millionaire uncle, a retired play producer named Bath, to join them. The Frankensteens were glad of it. Andrews' uncle took them to roadhouses, bought them champagne, brought toys to their children. So generous was he that their vacation cost the two young friends hardly a cent except for rent and food...