Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...relieve the Post Office Department entirely. He gave bidders 30 days to make their offers for "something like" 85 airplanes, 15 hangars located at fields all across the country, several million dollars' worth of shop equipment. Eyes turned toward the leading U. S. airmail contractors- Henry Ford in Detroit, the Colonial Air Transport Inc. (New England), National Air Transport Inc. (Midwest), Pacific Air Transport Inc.- expecting some joint or combined offer for the transcontinental job and properties...
...Detroit's Orchestra Hall, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra gave the first concert of its 13th season before a friendly, congenial audience that radiated enthusiasm over the orchestra, the program and Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch. Beethoven and Brahms wrote the important music for the evening-the Lenore Overture No. 3, and Brahms' First Symphony in C Minor with its tender upward sweep of strings, the sombre throbbing of basses and tympanums, bravely building, mellow, wise. Debussy and Liszt furnished the spice- Nuages and Fêtes, vague, lovely, and the Second Hungarian Rhapsody, vigorous, breathless. Conductor Gabrilowitsch did his work...
Tyrus R. Cobb, Detroit baseball manager: "In the columns of able Journalist Clinton W. Gilbert, I noticed, recently, my name, coupled with that of Fielding Harris Yost, famed Michigan football coach. Commenting upon our oratorical support of Republican Congressman Robert H. Clancy, former Democratic Congressman, Mr. Gilbert graciously admitted that our advocacy helped defeat the sartorially notable Congressman John B. Sosnowski in Detroit's greatest Polish district. He wrote: 'Mr. Cobb commanded many votes among the masses. . . . Mr. Yost reached the intellectuals. His appeal was to the highbrows who follow the highbrow sport of football...
Religion. On the eve of the convention, the Detroit Board of Commerce sent a letter to Detroit church members. This letter urged that invitations to labor leaders to address congregations on the Sunday of the convention be withdrawn as inimical to local industries...
Nevertheless the Detroit church invitations were withdrawn in accordance with the Board of Commerce's admonitions. Further, the local Y. M. C. A. canceled President Green's Sunday talk before a Y. M. C. A. mass meeting, because his presence might hamper the collections of their $5,000,000 building fund subscriptions...