Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Realtors, whatever it may have been in the past, is now a term synonymous with integrity, ability and fair dealing, redundantly stated one of National Association of Real Estate Boards at a convention in Detroit. Miss Lulu McKibbin presented the association with an olive wood gavel made at a carpenter shop in Nazareth by a boy ward from the U. S.; the game cock brought by the Texas delegation crowed lustily; the San Francisco boys' glee club sang; Winter Haven representatives gave away oranges; six exquisite Negroes with the Tampa stampers sang songs of the southland; girls were hired...
...More than 30 special trains have been chartered. Grand Esquire C. H. Grakelow will lead the parade in which each represented lodge will prance in its own original uniform. Grand Exalted Ruler John G. Price of Columbus, O., will come with an escort on a special train chartered by Detroit lodge No. 34; the Elks will climb snow-capped peaks, swim on Oregon beaches, visit big sawmills, wear reunion buttons...
...April, the Ford Motor Co. put into operation a freight airline between Detroit and Chicago (TIME, Apr. 20). For three months this line has worked successfully, carrying valuable freight at just under 10c a Ib. This week, the Ford interests started another line-one between Detroit and Cleveland. In the first plane was packed a knocked-down Ford automobile chassis, which, having arrived in Cleveland, was assembled on the field, driven...
...TIME, Mar. 2). Never were the educational woods so full of likely timber, yet there was only one rumor of a marked man. That came from James O. Murfin, a regent of the University, and was perhaps more than a rumor. At a Michigan convention, held, last week, at Detroit, Mr. Murfin invited those present to embody in the form of a resolution their sentiments towards Samuel Emory Thomason, '04, Chicago lawyer, Vice President of the Chicago Tribune, President of the American newspaper Publishers' Association. Mr. Murfin promised that such a resolution would be "acted...
Dorothy Karrick of Detroit went down after "statistician," and Mary Daniel of Hartford, Conn., after "valu-ing." Helen Fischer of Akron, Ohio, missed "moribund," the last word before "gladiolus...