Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Michigan. Last week the U. S. gathered in Detroit and along its rum- reeking river some 400 Dry agents. In the face of this new Prohibition drive Archibald Eugster, 21, with three companions, loaded 35 cases of Canadian liquor for which they paid $1,258, into their speed boat and started across. At the mouth of the River Rouge a Customs boat gave chase. Ten cases were jettisoned without widening the gap between the two boats. The rum-runners beached their craft, took to their heels. Customs Inspector Jonah Cox landed, stood guard over the liquor while his comrade went...
...Ovvned by Chicago's William Wrigley Jr., chewing gum tycoon. Other famed island-owners: Detroit's Motorman Howard Earle Coffin (Sapelo, Ga.), Boston's Lawyer Albert Cameron Burrage (Bumkin, in Boston Harbor), Maine's onetime Governor Percival Proctor Baxter (Macworth, Casco Bay), Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, Will Hays, Arthur Brisbane (Ona. Fla.), Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke (Jahncke's Bayou, St. John...
...tabloid newspaper, a new color scheme, appeared in the hands of Detroit newsboys last fortnight. It was called the Detroit Daily Illustrated (7 p. m. to 9 a. m. edition). The color scheme: white, then green, then pink. Its proprietor is Bernarr Macfadden, publisher of two other gum-chewers' sheetlets, New York's Graphic, Philadelphia's Daily News. This is the second new Macfadden publication venture within the last month. His other one: New York Investment News (TIME. April...
Albert Kahn, Inc., Detroit architect, for deigning tractor factory (production 40,000 tractors a year) at Stalingrad (TIME...
...West, fat actress, was told to close Diamond Lil in Detroit last week because the play was "silly and stupid, holding no moral and teaching no lesson." Later Mayor John Christian Lodge relented, declared: "The show will be given a chance to revise itself...