Word: locally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attorney, placed seventh with 88,000. Richard Frankensteen, U. A. W.,'s assistant president and hero of the "Battle of the Overpass" at the Ford plant, was ninth with 83,000. Thirteenth was Tracy Doll, president of U. A. W.'s Hudson local, followed in 14th place by Walter Reuther, head of the big, tough West Side local. And Ray Thomas, president of the Chrysler local, squeezed into 17th place. One of John L. Lewis' ambitions had not actually been realized, but he could truthfully say that C, I. O. had become Detroit's major opposition...
Voters balloted last Sunday on 16,000 candidates who sought 3,500 local offices in the cantons of France. As usual no candidate won in hundreds of constituencies, and in these final balloting takes place next Sunday. Returns from the first poll gave moderate bourgeois Premier Camille Chautemps, whose Radical Socialist Party is ludicrously misnamed, every reason to think that the French people have not swung to either extreme since they last voted in 1936, but favor the Popular Front Cabinet as its policies were recently revised and made less radical (TIME, Oct. 11). So far as could be judged...
...first symptom of "Squirmitis," a failing peculiar to spectators of double-feature programs. This annoyed announcement was made by two cinemagoing citizens of Nutley, N. J., William R. Clay and George H. Siegel, who a month ago founded the Anti Movie Double-Feature League of America, to improve local programs and revitalize their neighbors' paralyzed posteriors. Last week Founders Clay & Siegel were surprised and sobered to find their organization catapulting to national scale. The A. M. D.F. L. of A., dedicated to mass-boycotting of double bills, now boasts 65 chapters, hopes for at least one in each State...
...conference with Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the White House went Walter P. Chrysler accompanied by his local dealer. As he departed, News Photographer Maurice Lanigan snapped his picture, took advantage of the opportunity to complain that his Chrysler car was giving trouble. Automan Chrysler turned to his dealer. Said he: "Fix this...
...Last week word reached the U. S. of the latest Les Chantiers du Cardinal-the Cardinal's building jobs. Soon to arise at Joinville-le-Pont, where the French cinema industry is largely centred (Paramount and Pathe studios and laboratories, Kodak-Pathe film factory), is a church for local workers. Its name: Notre-Dame...