Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Divorced. Sebastian S. Kresge, Ten Cent Store operator and Anti-Saloon League agitator, by Mrs. Anna E. Harvey Kresge, at Detroit. She charged lack of affection, accused him of five years' sulking...
...Detroit...
...born in Shawnee County, Kan. He was educated at a Michigan normal school. At his majority he entered journalism. He rose by steady grades: reporter, city editor, political correspondent, editorial writer, editor. His service was with five newspapers: the Grand Rapids Herald, the Grand Rapids Eagle, the Detroit Evening News, the Detroit Free Press, the New York World...
...when he was editor of the Detroit Free Press, that he first attracted the attention of Joseph Pulitzer, the Great Pulitzer. The (health of William Henry Merrill, chief editorial writer of The World, was failing. The eyesight of Mr. Pulitzer himself no longer permitted him to serve in the full capacity of editor. Cobb was called East. He became Mr. Merrill's chief assistant. When Mr. Merrill died he became chief editorial writer of The World, and on Joseph Pulitzer's death in 1913, he succeeded to the title of editor...
...Navy and has established himself solidly. The Dutch fear greatly that they will lose him because of the larger possibilities of the U. S. This fear is not ungrounded. Fokker is negotiating for the purchase of one of the largest aircraft factories, and is studying an air route from Detroit to Chicago and St. Louis. American manufacturers regard him with very mixed feelings. They dread his competition in securing Government contracts, but would be delighted to see him use his unique experience in air transportation in an experimental air-line venture here...