Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What might be portended by a secret meeting, in Washington, D. C., of the following: James Wolcott Wadsworth, onetime (1915-27) U. S. Senator from New York; Edward Stephen Harkness, Manhattan philanthropist, and Charles Hamilton Sabin, Manhattan banker; Sidney Trowbridge Miller, Detroit lawyer-philanthropist; Pierre Samuel du Pont, Delaware industrialist-educator; Benedict Crowell, Cleveland engineer; Senators Walter Evens Edge of New Jersey and William Cabell Bruce of Maryland; Representative John Charles Linthicum of Maryland; and many another...
...University squash racquets team, national team championship winner last year at Detroit, will again participate in the National Squash Tournament, it was announced last night by R. H. Sanger '28, manager of the racquets men. The tournament will be held this year in the middle of February at Philadelphia. Although the University won the individual crown also last year, a new ruling prohibits any organization from entering both a team and an individual player in the tournament. In order to keep in condition for these and the other matches, team A will play two teams during the Christmas recess...
...Detroit's chances were destroyed by a characteristic chirrup from Senator Moses of New Hampshire. With an eye cocked at wet Ontario across the river from Detroit, Senator Moses said: "It would be the first time anyone was ever nominated for President on foreign soil...
Response to the League's new department of moderation was quick? so quick that some observers imagined the bigwigs had known in advance what would happen. To the League came Sebastian Spering Kresge (5¢ & 10¢ stores) of Detroit and Manhattan, long a League admirer, and declared that $500,000 of a 25 million-dollar charity fund which he lately set aside, was at Publicist Cherrington's disposal for 1928. The League had said that it wanted a million for 1928. Mr. Kresge promised to get the rest at once from fellow businessmen. Within 20 minutes of the opening...
...48th Annual meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers at Manhattan last week, Charles Michael Schwab ended his year as the society's president with a valedictory that included his present philosophy of dealing with employes. Alex Dow, president of the Detroit Edison Co., succeeded him as president...