Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seattle the play was presented by a Negro cast. Two versions in Italian were scheduled for Newark and San Francisco. Despite Mr. Lewis' original edict that not a line of his script must be changed, Denver was permitted to transfer the Vermont locale to Colorado and in Detroit the action was laid in a factory district. In Tampa, the play was given in Spanish with the action in Cuba. A fat advance sale in most cities indicated that It Can't Happen Here would get a thorough hearing. In Manhattan speculators were selling tickets at prices above...
Michigan. To help make Michigan safe for Democracy, President Roosevelt brought popular, vote-getting Frank Murphy back from his $18,000 job as Philippine High Commissioner to run for the $5,000 Governorship of Michigan. Month ago the redhaired, freckled, dynamic onetime Mayor of Detroit was so worried about his own chances that he got his Presidential patron to tour the State, sing his praises at every station stop. For a time on election night it looked as though Democrat Murphy's fears had been justified, but when the Detroit returns came in it seemed clear that Republican Frank...
...paint. For grandiloquent allegory Education of Cupid has few equals in the U. S., perhaps only Venus and the Lute Player, now in the Metropolitan, The Rape of Europa, bought years ago by Boston's canny Mrs. Jack Gardner, and Judith with the Head of Holofernes at the Detroit Institute of Arts...
...Sportswriter Tunis' list of professionals: Alabama, Baylor, Boston College, Bucknell, Carnegie Tech, Colgate, Columbia, Detroit, Duke, Duquesne, Fordham, Georgetown, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana State, Marquette, Michigan State, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, Northwestern, Ohio State, Oregon, Pittsburgh, Princeton, Santa Clara, St. Mary's, Southern California, Southern Methodist, Stanford, Syracuse, Temple, Texas Christian, Tulane, Villanova, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Washington, Western Maryland, West Virginia, Wisconsin...
Died. Senator James Couzens, 64, of Michigan, reputedly richest man in the Senate, who strongly advocated higher income taxes for his kind; of uremic poisoning; in Detroit. A onetime newsboy and coalyard hand who in 1903 invested $2,500 in Ford Motor Co., he became Ford general manager, sold out his interest to Henry Ford in 1915 for some $30,000,000. In 1919 he ran for Mayor of Detroit, warned voters he was not "a good fellow . . . who will do favors for his friends," was elected. Three years later he was in the U. S. Senate. Last September Republican...