Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mania. For the great Sit-Down Mania, though dwindling, had not yet exhausted itself. In Michigan, strikes in Reo and Hudson plants were still going strong. At Aurora. Ill., a sit-downer orchestra struck up Here Comes the Bride while a justice of the peace married two strikers. In Detroit, Checker Cab Co., which operates three-fourths of the city's taxis, had a drivers' strike, but many of the company's 600 cabs (which belong mostly in ones and twos to 400 individual capitalists) were operated by their owners...
Thursday evening Messrs. Chrysler & Lewis met again to try for a treaty. Columnist Hugh Johnson wrote that the evacuation agreement had been made nearly three weeks earlier by Messrs. Chrysler & Lewis, that it fell through because Mr. Lewis could not reach his lieutenants in Detroit within the time agreed on and because "lawyers and other industrialists" put pressure on Mr. Chrysler to make Governor Murphy oust the sit-downers. Of the post-evacuation negotiations, Hugh Johnson said...
...first game, the Detroit Red Wings, playing on their home rink, skated rings around the Montreal Canadiens, 4-to-0. In the second, they did exactly the same thing though this time the Canadiens managed to score the first goal before losing, 5-to-1. For the third game, the teams moved to Montreal, where "Les Millionaires," the Canadiens' famed cheering club, occupies the same block of seats at all their games. A temperamental team, which in streaks this season has been the best in the game, the Canadiens suddenly recovered their touch. Johnny Gagnon put the first goal...
...opened in 1873, largely from a $1,000,000 bequest made to the city some 20 years before by Merchant Charles McMicken. College of the City of New York (City College for men, Hunter for women, co educational Brooklyn College) sprouted from a free academy and a Normal school. Detroit's Wayne University was formed by bundling together five municipal colleges...
...midwestern orchestras, none has risen so rapidly or so recently as the Indianapolis Symphony. Until 1930 Indianapolis had no resident orchestra, had to depend on occasional visits from the Cleveland, Cincinnati and Detroit bands. That year an old violin teacher named Ferdinand Schaefer brought together 60 unemployed musicians to form the co-operative Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Before an average house of 400 they played five times, earned less than $5 apiece for each concert. At the end of the season the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce and the Junior League formed the Indianapolis State Symphony Society as sponsors...