Word: hamtramck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...battle began at Chrysler Corp.'s Dodge plant in Hamtramck, a Detroit suburb noted for its putrescent politics and its high proportion (90%) of Polish-Americans. As 1940 Dodges took shape on the assembly lines, company inspectors time & again had to halt the production flow to check up on botched work, missing parts. Harassed Dodge bosses were up against a new flowering of an old technique-the slowdown. After Dodge fired 64 union sloths, then refused to reinstate them, every second unit slid untouched past key workers. Union girls refused to touch De Soto arm rests on a parts...
...Contrary to expectation, the right of Democrat Dr. Rudolph G. Tenerowicz of Hamtramck, Mich., onetime convict (TIME, Nov. 28, et ante) to a seat was not challenged. No seat was challenged...
...Hamtramck's first mayor, Peter C. Jezewski, was sentenced to Leavenworth for conspiring to violate the Prohibition...
...Punxsutawney, Pa. (pronounced Punk-soo-tawney). He had studied medicine at Loyola University, served in the Army Medical Corps. Eloquent and energetic, combining politics with doctoring like Michigan's late Royal S. Copeland, who became Senator from New York, Dr. Ten was only five years in becoming Hamtramck's mayor...
...tactics when Dr. Ten arrives to take his seat at the Capitol may be to demand that he "stand aside" while other new House members take their oaths, then force his Democratic colleagues to defend him. If he is unseated he will not be vastly surprised. Of being tough Hamtramck's mayor he long ago said: "There's a hoodoo connected with this...