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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that point a Federal judge persuaded Attorney Campbell to let the network stay in operation three more days while he heard arguments. This week thousands of bookies, millions of betters wondered what now. Said an employe of one racing sheet: "Tell 'em not to worry; they'll get their tips. You had prohibition, but you got your whiskey, didn...
Without stepping off the twelve acres of the Center a visitor could go to dentist, doctor, chiropodist, osteopath, could have a massage, exercise in a gymnasium, study languages, book passage to Tahiti, get a passport, could dine, drink and dance. Only comfort and convenience not to be found there was a place to sleep...
...corporation had lost the first cream of 1940's new business, seemed willing to go on losing while its executives and union spokesmen bickered, belied each other, failed even to agree on what the fighting was about. Union wives badgered their men to get back to work. Union men wished heartily that "The Old Man"-stricken Board Chairman Walter P. Chrysler-was back running his automobile plants...
...clock, tire-'em-out tactics which ex-Governor Frank Murphy used to apply to stubborn negotiators. As though he were teaching his Bible class in the Center Eaton Methodist Church near Charlotte, Mich., Luren Dickinson piped: ". . . If you have faith, and apply the Golden Rule, you can get together." For two hours his pupils did unto each other as they had been done by for weeks, swapping acrimonies and getting nowhere. The Governor pared his nails, enjoined his guests to have faith, occasionally bent an ear to the whisperings of his omnipresent adviser, "Judge" Emerson R. Boyles. Once...
...letting in a little outside air on the stale quarrel, Governor Dickinson's interference had some good effect on both sides. At a later get-together with Federal Conciliator James F. Dewey, C. L O.'s Frankensteen backslapped Chrysler's Weckler, who beamed right back at Mr. Frankensteen. They had agreed on some minor provisions for a new bargaining contract but had yet to settle their prime differences: 1) whether the management alone should decide how hard & fast union men shall work, and 2) whether union men shall have first call on Chrysler jobs...