Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...local resident was ever permitted in his gambling rooms, no liquor was ever allowed, all patrons had to wear evening dress, no employe was permitted to wager a nickel. One year Gamester Ballard made $1,000,000. He bought the West Baden Springs Hotel, and later, with a Detroit gambler, Robert ("Silver Bob") Alexander, also opened a gambling place at Miami. After a time Ballard withdrew from the Association. In the same era he plunged into the circus business. He bought Hagenbeck & Wallace Circus which was about to go on the rocks, soon picked up other circuses - Sells-Floto, John...
Died. Charles Edward ("Ed") Ballard, 63, oldtime hotelman, gambling house and circus proprietor of French Lick, Ind.; from a bullet fired by his onetime Partner Robert ("Silver Bob") Alexander of Detroit, who next shot himself; in Hot Springs...
Scouring the Delaware River in his speedboat, Outfielder Leon Allen ("Goose") Goslin of the Detroit Tigers rescued two men adrift twelve hours, towed their stalled craft twelve miles to Salem...
Anthony Grzebyk is the biggest man in the Plymouth automobile plant in Detroit. He stands 6 ft. 4½in., weighs 300 lb., measures 48 in. around the waist. His towering bulk, his stolid face are familiar to nearly every worker under the 22 acres of Plymouth roof. He works on the assembly line in the evening shift, arriving a half-hour early just as the day shift is quitting at 3:30 p. m. To day shift and to evening shift he is known simply as "Big Tony...
...Tony Grzebyk was born 30 years ago at Eleanor in the Pennsylvania coal fields. At 13 he followed his father into the mines. When Big Tony was 17 the Grzebyks moved to Detroit, and the family have been automobile workers ever since. Big Tony has been at Plymouth for six years. His brother Pete works at Briggs Manufacturing, his brother Frank at Thompson Products. His brother Stanley is not old enough to work. All the Grzebyks except Peter, who is married, live with their widowed mother in a six-room frame house at No. 5028 Belmont St. That is about...