Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...native of Detroit met a friend on Broadway, Manhattan...
...When are you going back to Detroit?" asked Friend...
...Steel Corp., six feet tall, towering and blocky as a full-rigged schooner, took a gavel in his great fist last week. He thwacked the speaker's table smartly and the 14th yearly convention of the National Foreign Trade Council went into three-day convention at Detroit. Mr. Farrell organized the Council in 1914 and has always been its chairman. When he rapped for order, he got it. Nor did many of the 2,000 manufacturers, merchants, shippers, railroaders, steamship men, importers and exporters who went to Detroit last week stray across the river to Windsor, Ontario, seeking a glass...
...Detroit last week he said: "The time has gone when direct balances between separate nations can be struck accurately without reference to other countries, or when these direct balances can be taken as a criterion of the actual trade positions of these countries. The world has become one market. It is a vast composite of many sections which, to suit our political convenience, we call empires, nations and countries but which, in fact, in so far as trade is concerned, have been welded together by the developments of recent years in those two fundamentals, transportation and communication." By those...
...first suggestion that a memorial to Lionel deJersey Harvard be placed in the home of John Harvard was made by H. G. Knight '13, at a meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs at Detroit in 1924. A committee to carry out the plan was appointed immediately by the president of the Associated Harvard Clubs, consisting of J. P. Brown '14, J. S. Fleek '15, H. G. Knight '13, and J. B. Munn...