Word: masses
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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...
...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 rendezvous, the heart of Detroit was almost deserted at rush hour...
Later in the afternoon the House upheld the gubernatorial decision through failure to mass a two-thirds vote to override. The final legislatorial ballot stood at 100 to sustain and 101 to override...
...been shown to be the way to get better and cheaper houses in the future." He said that people are afraid of the idea of pre-fabricated houses because they think that all houses will look alike. Ridiculing this idea, he declared that competition among mass-production manufacturers would be certain to produce many varieties and types of houses...
Tonight's speakers and their selections are: Howard L. Blackwell Jr. '39, of Cambridge, Mass., excerpt from "Messer Marco Polo," by Donn Byrne; Tucker Dean '37, of Chicago, Ill., "The Committee for Industrial Organization: A Challenge to the campus," by John L. Lewis; Edward J. Duggan '37, of Chelsea, Mass., "The supreme Judicial Tribunal," by wil- liam E. Borah; Arthur Ellison '37, of Chelsea, Mass., excerpt from "The Selective Principle in Education," by James B. Conant; Norman E. Hunt '38, of Brookline, Mass., "The Bombardment," by Amy Lowell; Wiley E. Mayne '38, of Sanborn, Ia., "Daniel O'Connell," by Wendell...