Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Better Look put." President Truman set the tone of his campaign last week in five Labor Day speeches in as many Michigan industrial cities. In Detroit's Cadillac Square he found a tremendous turnout. The C.I.O. and the A.F.L. had worked together to make a show of labor's numbers. Upwards of 100,000 people packed the open plaza and converging streets around City Hall. Harry Truman gave them a blunt and truculent speech on the theme that only he and the Democratic Party had the welfare of the "little man" at heart. Said...
...Michigan's Wayne County Council of the C.I.O. was finally delivered from Red hands. Under Phil Murray's personal direction, anti-Communist unions that had been seceding in disgust for years, were ordered to re-apply for membership. When the Reds refused to seat them, an emissary from C.I.O. headquarters led the anti-Communists into a rump meeting, took over all books and records, and left the Reds holding an empty...
...Purdue's eleven 1947 starters were back this year, including Quarterback Bob De-Moss, a fine passer, and Halfback Harry Szulborski, who averaged better than six yards a try in 1947. That left Holcomb only one understandable gripe: a schedule that pits Purdue against Notre Dame, Northwestern and Michigan in the first three weeks...
...same held for Archibald MacLeish, a boy who grew up on Lake Michigan, who was a captain of field artillery in France in 1918, who had memorably and simply envisioned his countrymen living...
...repeal of the Taft-Hartley law, extension of social security and health insurance, an increased minimum wage (from 40? to 75?). Then he climbed aboard his newly refurbished railroad car, the Ferdinand Magellan, to carry his message to a joint A.F.L. and C.I.O. rally in Detroit, to four other Michigan cities, and Toledo...