Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once each season, Ilya Schkolnik, concertmaster of the Detroit Symphony leaves his desk to be soloist. It was Beethoven's Concerto in D Major that he chose this year for his own violin, and the critics said " never has he disclosed his artistic stature in so distinguished a manner...
...June 25, 1885, Detroit tried out a pitcher named Casey, but he was not mighty at bat and did not last the season through as a pitcher. A strike out by him would not have shocked the populace...
...gold medal by the Government for the distinction of giving birth to 24 children in 25 years. In London, Robert Broom, 91, was married to Miss Elizabeth Bolt, 88. Both were so feeble they were obliged to sit during the ceremony; they signed the register with trembling hands. In Detroit, Mrs. Jennie P. Frazer* was married to Smith V. Fish in the presence of her three-year-old great-grandchild. In Manhattan, Saks & Co. (clothiers) alleged in an advertisement that "the best known men in Wall Street [i.e., J. Pierpont Morgan, Otto H. Kahn, Dwight W. Morrow, Jesse Livermore, Seymour...
...great American newspapers maintain groups of able correspondents abroad, who are thoroughly equipped to do the job, as best it can be done. . . . These writers are, primarily, collectors of facts. The interpretations placed upon their expositions are made by men schooled in that branch of journalism-editorial writers." The Detroit Free Press was drawn into a similar dispute by an assertion of The Manchester Guardian that: "For four years the American press, though supremely well posted upon such matters as the oats of Papyrus, has told Americans extraordinarily little about the realties of post-war Europe...
...Detroit Free Press passed the following animadversion: " Every capital in Europe is being combed for news by American correspondents representing several news associations, and a greater number of individual papers than ever were represented in Europe before. These correspondents have supplied this country with accurate information, and it is possible for them to write with a detachment unattainable by European journalists because their country is not entangled in the troubles and dangers they describe...