Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reports from Washington had it that the names of F. Trubee Davison, Chairman of the National Crime Commission and Harold H. Emmons of Detroit, were being considered for appointment, one as Assistant Secretary of War for Air, the other as Under Secretary of Commerce for Air-two of the new jobs created by recent legislation in accordance with the recommendations of the Morrow Air Board last December. (TIME, Dec. 14, ARMY & NAVY...
...statement by Lawyer Howland S. England of Detroit was also published, indicating that the experiments would follow the ideas of Anthropologist F. G. Cruikshank* of London. The latter's researches have convinced him that offspring capable of reproducing themselves can be obtained by crossing orangoutangs with the yellow race, gorillas with the black race and chimpanzees with the white race, the theory being that the divisions of the anthropoid and human races pair off thus most closely as kindred types...
...Tribune and its noisy offspring, Liberty, had their way, they would persuade ignorant readers that Stephen Decatur's ". . . our country right or wrong" is the greatest patriotic phrase ever mouthed. But executives of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church of Manhattan last week invited Dr. Minot C. Morgan of Detroit to be their associate pastor (at $12,000 yearly), he who damned that phrase as "a damnable toast of some patriotic Americans...
...prince and his party will complete their tour of the eastern and New England states with their two day visit of Boston. On the day following his visit to the University the heir to the Swedish throne will take the train for Detroit via Niagara Falls, and will continue on through the middle and far western states. The most important engagement of the prince on the day following his visit to Cambridge, will be his attendance at the festival and reception to be given by the Swedish Old People's Home in West Newton Carl W. Johansson, the Swedish Consul...
Last week in Detroit concrete figures about past profits-those of the seven years 1917-24-were hauled into court. The Parker Rustproof Co. is asking royalties of about $1,000,000 from the Ford people for the supposed infringement of patent in the use of a rustproofing process. The Ford company claims that the process was never used as a selling inducement and wishes to pay only established royalties...