Word: hamtramck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rearing back and firing like a major leaguer, 13-year-old Art Deras (5 ft. 8 in., 136 Ibs.) struck out 14 to lead his team from Hamtramck, Mich, to a 12-0 rout of Auburn, Calif., and the Little League world championship at Williamsport...
...Hamtramck, Mich...
Detroit. Aiming point: Cadillac Square. Wiped out: downtown Detroit, Hamtramck, River Rouge, Highland Park, Windsor. Major blast damage: Dearborn, Grosse Pointe, Royal...
Adlai Stevenson leaped into the fight (TIME, Sept. 8). At Detroit-surrounded Hamtramck, he said that Eisenhower's statement led to "speculation here and abroad that if he were elected, some reckless action might ensue in an attempt to liberate the peoples of Eastern Europe from Soviet tyranny." He added: "I tell you now that I will never fear to negotiate in good faith with the Soviet Union, for to close the door to the conference room is to open a door...
Four years ago, he and his tireless wife Nancy came out of political nowhere to tour the state in their battered De Soto convertible. Soapy called square dances at every crossroad, and he and Nancy out-polkaed the Polish-Americans in Hamtramck. In six months of hard campaigning they got Soapy elected as one of the rare Democratic governors in a traditionally Republican state. In 1950 they did it again, to make him the second Democratic governor in Michigan's history ever elected in a nonpresidential year. Last week, at an undaunted 41 years. Soapy plunged into the campaign...