Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ducking stool is altogether too archaic for a college campus, so the University of Detroit is attempting to solve the problem of feminine garrulity by threatening to expel any co-ed who is discovered talking to a man on the campus. The objection of the University authorities is that the inherent conversational abilities of the girls prevents many of the men from attending to their studies...
Married. Charles Stewart Mott, 54, of Flint, Mich., vice president of General Motors Corp., three times Mayor of Flint, twice a widower; and Mrs. Dee Van Balkon Fuery, 29, of Detroit, Sumatra-born, Paris-educated editor of Bridle and Golfer, Detroit smart-chart; in Toledo, Ohio...
...architect of Manhattan's new Guild Theatre. When Producer Max Reinhardt staged The Miracle in the U. S., Mr. Geddes transformed the theatre into a Gothic sanctuary which cast a mediaeval and holy glamor on the nunneries. Now, among other projects, he is designing automobiles and a Detroit factory...
...strike out for himself. Geddes began painting portraits of such people as Brand Whitlock, Mme. Schumann-Heink, Mme. Galli-Curci, Enrico Caruso, and a dozen others, but having a mother and younger brother to support (he was then 20 years old), he got a job in a Detroit Advertising agency. He was ousted when the president discovered that Mr. Geddes spent many office hours dictating dramas to the presidential private secretary...
...take over the Wabash. Running west from Buffalo and Toledo, the Wabash goes through Indiana and Illinois, gives us an additional line into St. Louis and an entirely new line into Kansas City, Des Moines and Omaha. Then if we could also have the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville, and the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton, and build a new line south from Toledo through Ohio, we would have our northern arm (Toledo to Chicago) and our southern arm (to St. Louis) nicely connected with three splendid north-and-south railroads. In the East, we should have the Reading and the Jersey Central...