Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Landon. At Chicago he made his triumphal entry into the city and his drive to the Stadium in a pouring rain which drove even his admirers from the streets. When Franklin Roosevelt followed five days later he had a balmy night and the streets were packed. At Detroit when Nominee Landon spoke at Navin Field ball park the temperature was 43° and barely 10,000 Republicans shivered in the grand stands. When Nominee Roosevelt spoke two nights later Cadillac Square was jammed with listeners and the illuminated thermometer shining down on them showed the temperature...
...Landonites could not blame Nature for all the things that went wrong. In few places were the Governor's parades properly arranged beforehand. In Chicago application for a parade permit was not made until too late to organize police supervision. In Detroit the Republican parade was so dawdling that the Nominee's car had to pull out of line and run ahead to the point where cheering crowds were waiting. At Detroit also his speaking stand was in centre field from which it took a full second or two for his voice to reach the grandstand, another second...
Next day Nominee Landon stumped across Michigan with better weather and bigger audiences than he had in chilly Detroit. Here & there small boys booed him. His second day in Michigan ended with bursting bombs, red fire, a cheering crowd of 75,000 welcomers at Grand Rapids. ("Like so many Americans, I have spent a good deal of my life in close contact with Grand Rapids furniture.") There the Nominee spent the night at the home of Senator Arthur Vandenberg. Thence he turned homeward across Indiana...
Last week Radiopriest Charles E. Coughlin was addressing a state rally of his National Union for Social Justice at Detroit's Fair Grounds. One listener not a member of the National Union was Frank ("Woody") Hockaday, onetime Wichita, Kans. automobile accessories dealer, now chiefly interested in promoting peace by means of sudden dramatic appearances with a bag of feathers. This punchinello of the 1936 political campaign first received public notice and fell into the hands of the police in June when, attired in red shorts and an Indian war bonnet, he strewed his feathers all over Philadelphia...
Last week, resplendent in a costume consisting of a red coat, white pants and a white cap, this amazingly ubiquitous character climbed unnoticed onto the speakers' platform at Detroit. As Radiorator Coughlin was loudly explaining the difference between Communism and Christianity, nimble Woody Hockaday showered him with feathers, deftly sidestepped a punch the priest aimed at him, shouted into the microphone: "You can't mix religion and politics!" While Peaceman Hockaday was being hauled off to a cell, Father Coughlin regained his composure, continued his address, feathers fluttering with every gesture...