Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles B. Warren of Detroit, a lawyer, who served as counsel for the Government in various international disputes, became a member of the Republican National Committee in 1912, and Ambassador to Japan in 1921. He resigned from that post last Spring and during the Summer conducted (with John Barton Payne) the negotiations for the recognition of Mexico. His diplomatic record, although brief, is considered able. Frank O. Lowden of Oregon, Ill., former Governor of his state (1917-1921) and an outstanding candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1920. From a law practice in Chicago he branched into society...
...Detroit 72.3 Schenectady...
...money, to be a Great Man. And, like an energetic person he achieved his aims. Middle age found him wealthy, married to a girl far superior to his original intended, and the father of a family to carry on the red-blood tradition. But he would be Mayor of Detroit, and the professional politicians got him when he started to take himself too seriously; his children turned out unexpectedly, as children do; he ended, a punctured balloon? rather wondering why. There seemed to be no answer except that life was a queer affair. A sound, capable novel...
...most hard put, proportionately, with 16% of 164,000 pupils unseated. Chicago needs desks for 12% of 400,000. In Manhattan, where the hue and cry clamors loudly enough about the ears of Mayor Hylan to make of him an almost national figure, the deficit is less than 8%. Detroit and Minneapolis are large centers lacking only 3% or so, Cleveland 2%. On the grand average, about one child in ten must join the overflow classes in basement or improvised classroom...
Died. John B. ("Dots") Miller, 37, until recently manager of the San Francisco Club of the Pacific Coast Baseball League, at Saranac Lake, N. Y., of tuberculosis. He played second base for the Pittsburgh Pirates (National League) in 1909, when they won the pennant and defeated the Detroit Tigers in the World's Series. He contracted tuberculosis after being gassed...