Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from most countries in the Western Hemisphere escape the quota law. The law specifies that natives of Canada, Mexico, Cuba, etc. etc. shall be nonquota immigrants, and recent court decisions have permitted aliens born in quota countries to commute into the U. S. to work, in border cities like Detroit and Buffalo. Secretary Davis viewed alien commuters with alarm and also the swarms of Mexicans, 80,000 or more per annum, who have been sifting into the U. S. and getting U. S. workmen's jobs because they will work...
Died. Charles Caryl Coleman, 88, famed U. S. artist, native of Buffalo, veteran of the Union Army, who for 50 years has lived and painted on the Mediterranean island of Capri; at Capri. Buffalo. Detroit, Brooklyn, St. Louis & Louisville museums have his works...
Constantinople may soon be the Detroit of the Orient. For the Turkish Government has granted to Henry Ford a 25-year concession by which he may erect a Constantinople plant for assembling automobiles, trucks, tractors, planes. Ford must use Turkish coal, Turkish workmen...
Grand opera was the dream of this girl from Detroit. Between vocalizings, however, she found it necessary to get a job, and she got one in the office of blithe, clever Editor Wyckoff. She became his stenographer and secretary...
...that purpose hired a smart secretary for its Chamber of Commerce-Milton M. Murray. When Bernt Balchen (who is with Commander Byrd now) and the late Floyd Bennett were testing the Josephine Ford plane for the Byrd North Pole flight two years ago, Secretary Murray was a Detroit newspaperman and flew with them on some of their experimental flights. That experience gave him a personal interest in the present Byrd expedition; his job gave him a practical interest. Hence his cablegram to Commander Byrd last week: "Dunedin, Florida, joins Dunedin, New Zealand, in hailing your expedition and extending best wishes...