Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Part of the reason for that defeat was that Michigan's New Dealers were not allowed to vote in both Democratic and Republican primaries. No less than 270,000 of them voted on Democratic ballots to nominate Detroit's onetime Mayor, popular Frank Murphy, High Commissioner to the Philippines to run against Governor Frank D. Fitzgerald who was renominated by the Republicans...
Considering that Wilber Brucker had polled 315,000 votes on a strictly anti-New Deal platform, the Michigan trend against the Roosevelt Administration looked so strong to the Detroit Free Press that it published an editorial making fun of all straw votes and polls which indicated that the State was politically nip & tuck, announced that Dr. Daniel Starch's survey which had been appearing in its columns would be discontinued...
...America advertised the undertaking as "the greatest united venture in religion on the part of Protestant churches of America in this generation." Starting with Albany, N. Y. last week, preaching teams of at least ten men and women will spend four days in the following communities: Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Detroit, Indianapolis, Atlanta, Birmingham, Louisville. St. Louis, Cleveland, Des Moines, Omaha, Billings, Mont., Seattle, Vancouver, Portland, Ore., San Francisco-Oakland, Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago, Washington, Raleigh, Philadelphia, Boston, winding up with a multitudinous evangelical mass meeting in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden the second week of December...
...crematist is Lawrence Frank (''Larry") Moore of Oakland. Calif., whose $500,000 crematory and columbarium were designed by Julia Morgan. Founder of the Cremation Association of America and the man whom Mr. Moore salutes as "the leader of the philosophical cremation movement." is Dr. Hugo Erichsen of Detroit, onetime neurologist, one-time medical director of Burroughs Adding Machine Co. Competition forced Dr. Erichsen to close his crematory in 1929. He still writes campaign material for the trade...
...Eaton, in whose property Cinema Producer Irving Thalberg was buried last week and who has a contract to put Mary Pickford away when the time comes, advertises his cemetery with neon signs. expensive advertising brochures. Last week one of his colleagues. Judge William Heston of Detroit, boasted that, with no expensive advertising expenditures, his Michigan Memorial Park ''has received more publicity week after week than any other Detroit institution with the exception of the Detroit Tigers." Since Judge Heston built a loud organ in his cemetery, ''anyone driving within a radius of four or five miles...