Word: detroit
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...Rowland. She bore him one child, a son who was named James Roosevelt Roosevelt. He had a minor diplomatic career, died in 1927. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was not an only child. One brother, Elliott, died in 1893, aged 4. Surviving brother, Gracie Hall Roosevelt, onetime (1930-32) Controller of Detroit, is currently promoting a combination bus and rail...
...necessary for me to go to Detroit," said Madam Secretary Perkins, looking anxiously down her nose. Cause of her anxiety was an all-night fracas between police and strikers in the General Motors strike at Flint, Mich, which had sent a score of casualties to the hospital (TIME, Jan. 18). Not anxious but indignant was Strike Leader Homer Martin who had flown to Washington. Said he: "The blood-spilling in Flint by hired Hessians of General Motors is a demonstration of what Mr. Alfred Sloan means by collective bargaining." Newshawks on the scene, however, confirmed General Motors' contention that...
...Leader Lewis' strategy, however, he was would have to end promptly the C. I. O. strikes which last week continued to keep U. S. plate glass production almost at a standstill (TIME, Dec. 28). Though Chrysler was reported to have begun importing glass from Belgium, in rumor-ridden Detroit it was widely believed that Chrysler and every other motor manufacturer except Ford, which makes some glass of its own, would soon have to shut down for lack of glass...
...Meyer Weisgal, who had already put on in Chicago, Manhattan, Philadelphia, Cleveland and Detroit a pageant called The Romance of a People to raise funds for Jewish charity, persisted. He eventually got another $213,000 and Eternal Road rehearsals resumed Nov. 29, 1936. There were three more postponements before the greatest night in a generation for New York's Jews at last arrived. With Sara Delano Roosevelt representing the Gentiles and Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise at the head of his flock, the lights went down...
...Detroit Automobile Show in 1930 Mr. Sherman got a batch of orders, reached a production of 189 trailers by 1933. That year his sales were $56,000 By 1935 he sold 1,100 trailers for $500,000. Last year, working night & day. Cox ered Wagon turned out 6,000 trailers worth some $3,000,000. With added facilties provided out of the new financing, Covered Wagon hopes to hit the 20,000 mark in 1936. Total U. S. trailer production was an estimated...