Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President appointed Walter F. Brown of Toledo to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce, succeeding J. Walter Drake of Detroit, who resigned...
...lead, kept their eyes courteously to the front, applauded a respectful, uneventful performance of the Beethoven Fourth, the Brahms First. Five guest conductors are listed this season for the "one-man" orchestra: Fritz Busch of the Dresden Opera for the first half season, then Ossip Gabrilowitsch of the Detroit Symphony, Walter Damrosch himself, Maurice Ravel, coming from France, and Enrique Fernandez Arbós of the Madrid Symphony...
...Philadelphia Orchestra began with Fritz Reiner of the Cincinnati Symphony for guest the first half season. Sir Thomas Beecham (England), Ossip Gabrilowitsch (Detroit), Josef Willem Mengelberg (New York Philharmonic), Pierre Monteux (France) and Frederick Stock (Chicago) are possibilities for portions of the last half. Conductor Leopold Stokowski (whose arm is lamed) sailed last week for Europe and the Orient, to be away a year looking for new, unusual music...
...Detroit Symphony started its season Oct. 13 with a festive program led by Ossip Gabrilowitsch: Debussy's "Fetes" & "Nuages," Berlioz's'"Roman Carnival," Duka's "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," the Cesar Franck Symphony...
Sleek and slender as its sponsor, the new Ford Six was motored out of the Detroit factory last week as Henry Ford & Edsel watched. The elder man smiled contentedly as it was placed beside the fifteenth million model T flivver. Its maximum speed is 60 miles per hour. And it was the first product of the Detroit plant since...