Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...directly prohibit exporters from shipping their wares to the U. S. When 30 liquor docks were closed last week at Windsor, Ont., the reason given was not the well known fact that many a shipment consigned to "Cuba," "Mexico." "Nassau," etc. etc., was going straight across the water to Detroit. But National Revenue Minister Euler represented that Canada's export tax on liquor was being consistently evaded. Chairman Sir Henry Drayton of the Ontario (provincial) Liquor Control Board, also complained that export liquor was being smuggled back into Canada, often "cut" in the dreadful U. S. bootleg...
Simultaneously with the closing of the 30 docks at Windsor, eleven U. S. border-patrol inspectors were arrested in Detroit by their superiors and charged with bribe-taking, conspiracy...
Peter C. Cornell, the manager of the Majestic Theatre in Buffalo, is the father of Katharine Cornell. When Jessie Bonstelle, now the mentor of Detroit's Civic Theatre, arrived in Buffalo, Katharine Cornell became her pupil and like many another of Jessie Bonstelle's proteges, profited greatly by the tutelage. Later she toured under William A. Brady; later still she made her debut in London, returned to Manhattan for a series of successes of which the most notable was The Green Hat, and married Guthrie McClintic. Last year she was in The Letter; last week she received rave...
...Heeney fight are: Jimmy McLarnin, Gerald Ambrose ("Tuffy") Griffiths and Eligio Sardinias ("Kid Chocolate"). Fighting his first fight in Manhattan last week, "Tuffy" Griffiths was knocked out in the second round by James J. Braddock. On the same night "Kid Chocolate" was cuffed around by Joe Scalfaro and in Detroit Jimmy McLarnin was knocked out by Ray Miller...
Stinson Aircraft Corp. Northville, Mich. / Stinson-Detroiter / Passenger & cargo / . . . . . . .$6,750-$12,500 / Two biplanes used by Wilkins for his Arctic Expedition, 1927. A Stinson monoplane The Pride of Detroit was used by Brock & Schlee for their Newfoundland-Japan flight...