Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the A. F. of L. opened its 46th annual convention in Detroit with the similitude of calmness maintained during the two years of President Green's regime. There were no great advances to report. It was significant that the only issue of the first week was not forced by Mr. Green. It came, unexpectedly, from without...
...Sometimes they pop up in Washington, but their favorite modern playgrounds are in manufacturing cities where sprawling factories belch and whistle, where grimy alleys creep between frame hovels, where workingmen need stimulation Saturday nights. The so-called "better element" becomes excited only on occasions when the Rockefeller Foundation calls Detroit "the vilest city in the country," or when a newspaper publisher is murdered in Canton, Ohio (TIME, July 26). However, there is one town which has recently raised the visceral tension of the righteous about once a month. That town is Cicero, Ill., a Utopian nook for the twins. Here...
...bridge of her flattish nose. She fastened flesh-tinted court-plaster to her slanting eyes, creamed and powdered her broad cheeks, all so deftly that an Indo-European girl, or at most a Eurasian, left the dressing-room where a little Nipponese had gone in. Not until she reached Detroit last week was real attention paid this young woman by newsgatherers. Then the fact was broadcast that the Yum-Yum of the Messrs. Shubert's Mikado road company, was none other than Hisa Koike ("Eternal-Life Small-Lake"), 19, descendant of proud Samurai,f whose ambition vaults not only...
Hotelmen know Mr. Statler, greyling, sexagenarian, for the most human of competitors. They know that they may come to him for advice on operating their inns. They send their sons to train in his hotels-the Hotels Statler of Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, and St. Louis, the Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan. They count on easy entree to the Hotel Statler now abuilding on Park Square, Boston. He conceals his affairs so little, that he often, without forethought has exposed to strangers confidential reports on which his associates have spent hours of labor. Yet he does not thereby endanger the success...
Sidney S. F. Thaxter '07, Portland; Stoughton Bell '00, Boston; J. P. Cotton '00, New York; Stevens Heckscher '99, Philadelphia; W. C. Coleman '09, Baltimore; M. L. Wallerstein '15, Richmond; Murray Seasongood '03, Cincinnati; Hugh Shepard '00, Detroit; W. C. Boyden '89, Chicago; P. N. Booth '99, Louisville; M. M. Lemann '06, New Orleans; E. M. Grossman '96, St. Louis; Pierce Butler, Jr. '17, St. Paul; D. B. Trefethen '01, Seattle; Nathan Pereles, Jr. '07, Milwaukee; M. C. Sloss '93, San Francisco; R. V. Reppy '05, Los Angeles; and T. A. Knight '15, Dallas...