Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit was ominous as last week began. The United Automobile Workers, 6,000 of whose brawniest were sitting down in nine Chrysler plants, asked for a permit to hold a mass meeting of strike sympathizers. The place: Cadillac Square in the heart of Detroit. The hour: 4:30 p. m., as the evening rush hour began...
...City Council voted not to permit the meeting. Strike leaders, bitter at city authorities because police had been used to break up smaller sitdowns, threatened to hold the meeting without a permit. Homer Martin, head of the union, said he would call a general strike. He said the union would secure the recall of Mayor Frank Couzens (son of the late Senator James Couzens). Mayor Couzens yielded, got the union to defer the mass meeting till 5:45, advised firms in the office buildings on Cadillac Square to dismiss their workers early. Save for groups of strikers trooping to their...
...heat of the debate at the hearing... the repealists and the opponents, because of opposite beliefs, went off the course of orderly discussion, may I, for one, hold out the hand of fellowship in a sincere endeavor to work in harmony for a more mutual understanding of the greater problems facing our nation which require a solidity of thought and action...
...objective game will be the Colum- bia game at Bakers Field, New York. This is the opening Eastern Intercollegiate League encounter for both teams and Harvard will attempt to continue to hold the supremacy which it exerted over the Lions last season in winning two straight games...
Unexpectedly appearing from the heavens this morning, the above combination of drum, baloon and invaluable house hold necessities dropped on the bolls of Lowell House, which registered complete surprise by ringing for the second time since installation to the amazement...