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The Dominican Republic in the American Press: United States newspaper coverage of the island, gathered and translated for readers in both languagesLa República Dominicana en la prensa estadounidense: la cobertura de la isla en los periódicos de Estados Unidos, reunida y traducida para lectores en ambos idiomas
May 17, 194817 de mayo de 1948 · Washington, D.C. · The Trujillo Era & DictatorshipLa Era de Trujillo y la Dictadura

Evening star

SourceFuente: Evening star · Washington, D.C. · May 17, 194817 de mayo de 1948
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1948-05-17/ed-1/?sp=1

In contextEn contexto

The Trujillo Era & DictatorshipLa Era de Trujillo y la Dictadura · 1924–1960

Rafael Trujillo ruled for 31 years. US papers reported the 1930 hurricane that leveled Ciudad Trujillo, the 1937 Haitian massacre, sugar commerce, WWII U-boat sinkings, Tito Mella's Compañía Naviera Dominicana shipping fleet, and Trujillo's Washington lobbying.Rafael Trujillo gobernó durante 31 años. La prensa informó sobre el huracán de 1930, la masacre de 1937, el azúcar, hundimientos de submarinos en la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la flota de la Compañía Naviera Dominicana de Tito Mella.

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SummaryResumen

The Evening Star reported that President Truman nominated Ralph H. Ackerman, a career Foreign Service officer from California, to serve as Ambassador to the Dominican Republic. The President also appointed Ambassador Henry F. Grady to an additional post on the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East. Domestically, Michigan state police were dispatched to suburban Detroit to control picket line violence during a Chrysler auto strike.

El *Evening Star* comunicó que el presidente Truman sometió la candidatura de Ralph H. Ackerman, funcionario diplomático de carrera oriundo de California, para desempeñarse como embajador en la República Dominicana. El gobernante designó asimismo al embajador Henry F. Grady para asumir una encomienda adicional en la Comisión Económica de las Naciones Unidas para Asia y el Lejano Oriente. En materia doméstica, agentes policiales del estado de Míchigan fueron comisionados al área metropolitana de Detroit para sofocar disturbios acaecidos en los piquetes fabriles durante una huelga automotriz en Chrysler.

Where this standsEn qué punto está

The full text of this article is still being prepared. Until it is ready, this page carries a summary, the passage found on the page, and the link to the original, which is always one click away.El texto completo de este artículo aún se está preparando. Hasta que esté listo, esta página lleva un resumen, el pasaje encontrado en la página y el enlace al original, que siempre está a un clic.

From the original pageDe la página original

The passage where this article was found, copied from the newspaper page itself, reading errors and all. This is exactly what the summary above is based on.El pasaje donde se encontró este artículo, copiado de la propia página del periódico, con sus errores de lectura y todo. Esto es exactamente aquello en lo que se basa el resumen de arriba.

sion for Asia and the Far East.

Mr. Grady will hold the post along

with his job as Ambassador and as

Minister to Nepal.

The Economic Commission was es

tablished by the Economic and So

cial Council of the United Nations

on March 28. 1947.

The President also nominated

Ralph H. Ackerman to be Ambas

sador to the Dominican Republic.

Mr. Ackerman, a Californian, is a

Foreign Service career man.

Michigan Police

Called to Quell

Auto Pickets

i

CIO Union Threatens

To Call Out 225,000

At GM in Two Weeks

By the Associated Press

DETROIT, May 17.—Special

squads of State police were

rushed into suburban Highland

Park today to cope with an out

break of picket line violence

around one of 16 strikebound

Chrysler Corp. plants.

They were dispatched into the

Detroit area by Gov. Kim Sigler at

the request of Mayor Norman Pat

terson of Highland Park.

Mayor Patterson said local police

were unable to quell a disturbance

started by CIO united Auto Work

ers “goon squads." Two policemen

were reported sent to the hospital J

by the outbreak of fist fighting and;

rock throwing.

Gov. Sigler also disclosed he was

preparing to alert the National;

Guard if necessary.

First Violencf in Strike

This first major violence in the

6-day-old Chrysler strike came as

the auto-union threatened to call

a strike of 225.000 General Motors

workers and replied tartly to an

unexpected plea from the Ford

Motor Co. to cut wages.

T. A. Johnstone, acting director

of the UAW's General Motors de

partment, said there is "a very good

possibility" of a walkout in 90 GM

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Evening star. (1948). Washington, D.C., 1948-05-17. US/DR Newspaper Timeline. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1948-05-17/ed-1/?sp=1

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Evening star, 1948-05-17.

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