Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Greater Detroit...
...skyscraper had no sooner become a symbol for business progress and growth, than the Middle West entered the competition. W. C. Durant, then heading General Motors, decided to acquire the championship in office buildings for Detroit, and succeeded in doing , so with the enormous General Motors Building?at present the world's largest. Cleveland also entered the competition with its mammoth Union Trust building. Chicago began planning new office structures of huge size. Thus, while Manhattan remained unique in the number of its skyscrapers, its largest building was outranked by construction in the Middle West...
...better-than-the-average golfer. James D. Standish Jr. of Detroit was runner-up to Charles Evans in the 1914 and 1915 Western Amateur Championships...
President Warren G. Harding was an average golfer. With sincere sympathy for other average golfers, he donated a trophy bearing his name to be played for by teams representing the municipal courses of the cities of the U. S. Another golfer, James D. Standish Jr.* of Detroit, put up a cup for the best individual player. Last week, on the flat Salisbury course that sprawls over some moors near Garden City, L. I., began the fourth annual Public Links Tournament. When the diggers, the hookers and the slicers had been cleared away, two stout golfers stood forth to do battle...
...Harding Trophy was won by a New York team with a total of 616 for 144 holes; four golfers from Cleveland, with 5 strokes more, were second; Pittsburgh, 629, third; then Washington, Chicago, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Detroit, Toronto, Newark, Dayton, Jacksonville, Baltimore, Boston, Toledo...