Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Detroit. Last week 20,000 veterans of the war with Spain gathered from all states. A flock of automobiles was waiting to carry them down the streets, but the old soldiers laughed. "To hell with those things," they remarked; then they put on blue or light brown uniforms and marched afoot along Woodward Ave. Brass bands played the quick sad songs they had marched to almost 30 years ago-"After the Ball," "Just as the Sun Went Down," "Goodbye Dolly Gray." On the sidewalks girls cheered and threw flowers just as other girls had once thrown flowers to soldiers...
Speeches. Last week in Detroit, speakers remembered how badly they had been treated in 1898. Governor of Michigan Fred W. Green† said, "Never did an Army leader take the field with such poor equipment and such poor food as America in the days of '98. The same thing would happen if we went to war now. . . ." Major General Charles P. Summerall, Chief of Staff, protested: "The 1920 National Defense Act is ... developing excellently. ... It is what the title proclaims, an Act designed to procure adequate peacetime military establishment. . . ." Miss Jennie R. Dix, president of the Spanish War Nurses...
Seibert. One of the veterans in Detroit was John S. Seibert. In Cuba he offered to nurse seven U. S. soldiers who had smallpox or yellow fever. For this he received the Congressional Medal of Honor. When a patient, one Andrew Gould, was dying, he left a message with John Seibert who, 27 years later, found the family of Gould, delivered the message. After the World War, Veteran Seibert organized the first post of the A.E.F., named it for Quentin Roosevelt, son of his oldtime friend and commander...
General Manager Leo M. Rumeley of General Motors last week wished to show all G. M. C. foreign dealers the photograph of the season's new-model Cadillac. Aware of current communication methods, he despatched a messenger with a picture from Detroit to Cleveland. In Cleveland the Bell System put the picture on its telephoto wires to Manhattan and to San Francisco...
Counterclockwise to the sun. a U. S. monoplane was winging its way over strange soil and seas. Brown natives on lonely wastes and swarthy fishermen on desolate coasts looked upward from their fires and nets to see the huge hummingbird dart eastward overhead. Edward F. Schlee, Detroit oil man, and William S. Brock, onetime air mail pilot, drove the Pride of Detroit toward the glory of circling the world in record time. The previous record made by airplane, train and boat: 28 days, 14 hours, 36 minutes...