Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Therefore, Franklin Roosevelt decided on a major speech in Detroit to be made as he swings east this week...
...beating his wife," Charles A. Poole, Detroit WPA worker who did not beat his wife, was shot and killed last May by members of an insignificant secret society which had delusions of vigilante grandeur (TIME, June 1 & 8). Last week twelve members of this shoddy "Black Legion" stood up in Detroit court to be sentenced for their shoddy crime. Eight, guilty of murder, got life sentences; four, guilty of second degree murder, got three and one-half to 20 years...
...nine teams of the National League, No. 1 organization of the game. This season professional football has two major leagues, named after baseball's. Leaders of the six teams in the American League last week were the Boston Shamrocks. In the National League, the Chicago Bears and the Detroit Lions had yet to lose a game...
When the Yankees became mathematically certain of the American League Pennant a month ago, they had won 91 games. By last week, with no particular incentive, they had raised the total to 102, 19½ games ahead of second-place Detroit. Altogether, the team had made 182 home runs, an average of more than one for each game, nine more than the record set by the Philadelphia Athletics in 1932. It set a new major-league record of 992 runs batted in for the season. Five players drove in more than 100 runs each. A grand total...
...barn door until he could unfailingly hit knotholes no bigger than a dime. When he joined a minor league team, he decided that he was so much worse than most pitchers that only a special kind of curve would save him. He perfected one, the screwball. In 1925, Detroit bought Pitcher Hubbell. When famed Ty Cobb saw the screwball, he contemptuously told Hubbell to learn something else or give up pitching. Hubbell's control kept him from arguing. Back in the minor leagues, he went on throwing screwballs. In 1928, he was throwing the screwball for the Giants...