Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brown nine has been hampered for lack of first rate hurlers. Billings, last year's ace, is now starring with the Detroit Tigers. Lingham is slated to do mound duty for Brown today...
Last week, while Fliers von Huenefeld, Koehl and Fitzmaurice triumphed in Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, etc. etc., it was reported that the Bremen, still stranded at Greenly Island, might not be able to fly away if it were not fetched before spring thaws softened the ground. To spare the heroes a break in their tour, the War Department last week announced an expedition to Greenly Island in two amphibian planes commanded by Major General James E. Fechet, Chief of the Army Air Corps. A pilot of the Junkers Corporation was taken along, to be dropped on Greenly Island by parachute...
...Washington, the Prohibition Bureau was badly embarrassed. Only that week, Agent Robert L. Taylor had had to be dismissed in West Virginia for shooting into an automobile. Before that there was an outcry from Canadians who complained that U. S. rum guards had fired across the boundary line at Detroit. Near Fresno, Calif., one Frank Aiello was lately shot dead for not stopping. In Yazoo County, Miss., Federal bullets whacked into a back seat occupied by a woman and her two children...
...about royal personages, Poultney Bigelow (TIME, Jan. 23, 1927); Mrs. John B. Stetson Jr., wife of the U. S. Minister to Poland; Miss Marion Dixon (Chicago); Miss Dorothy Gillespie (Philadelphia); Miss Frances McKee (Washington); Mrs. John G. W. Husted (Manhattan); Miss Ruth Pruyn (Albany, N. Y.); Miss Virginia Both (Detroit); Miss Katherine Bullock (Denver); and Miss Diana Rockwood (Indianapolis); Miss Ellen Borden (Chicago); and Mrs. Anson W. Burchard (Manhattan...
Died. David Gray, 60, partner of Henry Ford in his earliest Detroit machine shop where, in the production of the first Ford automobile, he began to acquire a fortune of several million dollars; of pneumonia; at Santa Barbara, Calif...