Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Smith v. Hatton Sirs; TIME erred in stating (Sept. 19, 1927) that Dr. A. R. Hatton "had declined the deanship of the University of Detroit." The University of Detroit, a catholic institution did not offer him the deanship but the municipal College of the City of Detroit through the Board of Education did. Before Dr. Hatton declined, Mayor John W. Smith of Detroit, wanting no staunch advocate of the city manager system on the city payrolls, vigorously assailed the appointment and threatened to veto it. HAROLD E. ROE Detroit, Mich...
...confused with gorillas, huge apes" is just another insult to intelligent readers which so disgusts a very great number and makes them regret that TIME, which might be so very, very good, is so very, very amateurish and rotten. VERY SORRY SUBSCRIBER Book-Cadillac Hotel, Detroit, Mich...
Last week the Socialist Party dedicated a memorial radio station in Manhattan to Mr. Debs, giving the wave length his initials, WEVD. Also it announced that, at a recent meeting in Detroit, it had chosen Victor L. Berger, U. S. Congressman from Wisconsin, to succeed Eugene V. Debs as Chairman of the National Socialist Executive Committee...
Pigs. Last fortnight, Detroiters balloted in a primary to nominate two candidates for mayor (TIME, Oct. 24). The first nominee, by 30,000 votes, was John C. Lodge, politically chaste grand-uncle of Charles Augustus Lindbergh. The second nominee was John W. Smith, Detroit's present mayor...
Last week Mayor Smith & henchmen held a rally. Stated Mayor Smith: "I am Wet and do not believe any sane or sensible person believes the Prohibition Law can be enforced in great cities like Detroit, Chicago and New York. . . . The whole thing is the rankest sort of a joke. . . . The rottenest hypocrisy...