Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well they might. A native of Detroit, Dr. Scott was for nine years a student and protegé of no less a personage than the late Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz, wizened wizard of the General Electric Co. at Schenectady, N. Y., in whose laboratory more than once there was manufactured a miniature thunderstorm with artificial lightning...
...plenary session of the Federation was called to hear the world peace plan written by Dr. David Starr Jordan, Chancellor-Emeritus of Leland Stanford University, which last year won a $25,000 contest conducted by Raphael Herman, Detroit manufacturer (TIME, Dec. 15, INTERNATIONAL). Dr. Jordan's plan would conscript the world's school teachers, represented by twelve cooperating committees, to work under the supervision...
...Detroit News...
...Detroit News...
...still they fell in those first and second rounds: deliberate Rudolph Knepper, demon putter of recent Princeton teams, before one L. L. Bredin of Detroit; Chick Evans, onetime monarch of the West, before L. E. Bunning, stout-hearted Chicago business man; James Manion and then Eddie Held, the prides of St. Louis, before Keefe' Carter, Oklahoma boy-champion...