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Cried Hoffa: "The strike is on." At week's end, teamsters' pickets ringed the loading docks at the wholesale houses. But Hoffa's organizers now faced the sweaty business of riding after individual, dodging dogies. Republican Mayor Edward J. Jeffries ignored the prosecutor and asked that a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Round-Up Time | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

James J. Jeffries, 70, turn-of-the-century heavyweight champ, recovered from a stroke in a Burbank, Calif, hospital, smoked cigars in bed.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 25, 1946 | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

Target Elusive. None of this was very exciting. As every city boss knows, candidates should make great promises, roar for reform or sail into their opponents, particularly incumbent opponents. Frankensteen found that attacking his opponent, Mayor Edward J. Jeffries, was disconcertingly like shadow boxing. In six years as mayor, Jeffries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Knight in Dull Armor | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

Losing ground, Frankensteen made dramatic attempts to settle the crucial Kelsey-Hayes strike. He failed to produce any dramatic results. Meanwhile the muddled state of Detroit's labor affairs did nothing to improve his standing in the public eye. Last week Detroit politicos guessed his chances were no better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Knight in Dull Armor | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

To help Democrat Frankensteen -win, the hard-digging C.I.O. Political Action Committee canvassed the city, brought out 200,000 voters, 60,000 more than politicos had forecast. Besides Mayor Jeffries, Dick Frankensteen might also have to overcome opposition from Detroit's A.F. of L. unions; they talked of lining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Over the First Hurdle | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

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