Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with having sold two pints of liquor. She was charged also with being a "habitual criminal," inasmuch as this last offense was her fourth. So to her said Judge Collingwood: "It is the sentence of this court that from and after this day you shall be confined in the Detroit House of Correction for the remainder of your life." In the same court on the same day, a bellboy had pleaded guilty to manslaughter, had been fined $400 and freed...
...employes. Two weeks of holiday every year will be given workers in all manufacturing departments, as well as office help. And this vacation will be with pay, an unusual arrangement in the industrial world. Meanwhile Henry Ford, announcing jobs for 30,000 more men in his Detroit plants,* declared himself in favor of a different method of assuring leisure to workingmen. His employes, drawing a minimum wage of $5 a day, will work only five days a week, be laid off two. Said Ford: "A six-day week is all right for machines but a five-day week is enough...
...doings of Walter P. Chrysler, already prodigious, now became fabulous. People said that this torpedo-headed dynamo from Detroit with the smile like Walter Hagen's and the sensitive sophistication in oriental rugs, was building up a facsimile and four-square competitor of mighty General Motors Corp. and that he was going to house it in a skyscraper where it could peer down over New York at the General Motors building on Broadway...
...think of Ossip Gabrilowitsch as the little conductor with the highest collar in the world. There are others who know him better-as the Russian pianist who came to the U. S. and married Clara Clemens, Mark Twain's daughter, or as the conductor who went to Detroit and built up an orchestra there...
Harvard Club of Michigan (at Detroit): Howard L. Parker, Secretary, 751 Griswold St., Detroit, Mich...