Word: hamtramckers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hamtramck (pronounced ham-tram-mick) is a Polish factory community entirely encircled by Detroit and submerged by politics. Hamtramck's manners are Old World; but its morals have produced more political scandals than any city in Michigan. Mayors have become convicts; ex-convicts have become Congressmen. Once Hamtramck boasted a model school system which some optimists thought might save the place...
Instead, the school system became as bad as the town. Schoolkids between classes began joking about the latest graft scandals, and enrollments dropped from 14,000 twelve years ago to 4,200. Two years ago, the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools dropped Hamtramck from its accredited list...
...months ago, the board set out to find a new superintendent of schools. They hired one, fired him; hired him again, fired him again. In the midst of the hiring & firing, Michigan's Governor Kim Sigler, fed up with Hamtramck's scandals, told Hamtramck to "clean up the school mess" or the state would take over the school system. Just to make sure, he sent Clair Taylor, an able assistant in the Department of Public Instruction, to see that the board picked a superintendent who could be trusted. "We're on the spot," President Frank L. Piasecki...
Accomplice. In Hamtramck, Mich., police suspected the Stanley Wienceks of selling mutuel tickets, frisked them, found nothing, frisked their infant son, found 63 tickets in his diaper...
Meanwhile, School Board President Vincent S. Sadlowski has been indicted on the charge of having, as Councilman, accepted a bribe from a parking meter company. Last week teachers were struggling to get continuing contracts. The Board showed some signs of backing up, signing up. Tough Hamtramck, although busy in its war plants, happy in its beer gardens, was apparently beginning to resent its newest, if not greatest, local scandal...