Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the inter-city bidding for the G. O. P. Convention, last December in Washington, persons who visited the various headquarters were struck by the easy cheerfulness of Kansas City's representatives, in contrast to Detroit's anxious gogetters, Cleveland's cautious calculators, San Francisco's determined loudspeakers, Chicago's rooster-boosters. For a small city, Kansas City has extraordinary savoir-faire, and much more civility than many a larger place. Instead of permitting the G. O. P.'s reception to fall into the hands of local jobholders, a representative body of citizens...
...chosen are the following: William McKee Dunn '30, of Detroit, Mich.; Clarence Elkus Galston '30, of Woodmere, N. Y.; Herbert Tenney Holbrook '30, of Milwaukee, Wis.; Kendrick Kerns '30, of Newton; James Roosevelt '30, of Hyde Park, N. Y.; and Robert Franklin Walker Smith '30, of Evanston...
...lives in Detroit, its terminal city), is a bold act. Not since the financially riotous null and 1880's which brought the creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission (1887) and the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890) has an important railroad dared be so intimate with the press...
...were first Lane Bryant and her husband, one Malsin, dead these four or five years. Miss Lane Bryant, dressmaker, made negligees for fat women; Mrs. Lane Bryant Malsin, dressmaker, made garments to "conceal the condition" [of ma- ternity]. Lane Bryant, Inc., with stores in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Detroit, St. Louis, Baltimore and Chicago, make fashions "which slenderize and flatter your figure . . . sizes 36 to 58 bust...
...projected the motor stage service will run from Los Angeles through Denver, Omaha, Chicago, Detroit, Kansas City. St. Joseph, St. Louis. Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New York...