Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From that moment observers agreed that Senator Couzens would be beaten by himself and his suicidal devotion to the New Deal. Few dreamed, however, how bad that beating would be. Not only did "Jim" Couzens fall badly behind in Michigan as a whole, but even in Detroit, where his friends had predicted a majority for him, he ran a sorry second. Score: Brucker, 315,000; Couzens...
...races in the Seltzer Roller Derby Association, with 3,000 members at $2 each-a year ago, to replace his Walkathons which he said were beginning to grow vulgar. By last winter he had selected a group of teams who competed successively in Chicago (TIME, Feb. 3), Miami. Louisville, Detroit for one month each. With rules patterned after six-day bicycle races, except that both members of the teams are allowed to leave the track between 4 a. m. and 8 p. m. daily, Roller Derby racing made its New York debut last week. Scene was the famed old Hippodrome...
...callers make a noise whose nearest printable equivalent is "Su-ee Su-ee Su-ee-Pig-ee Pig-ee Pig-ee." If done properly, it proceeds from the diaphragm and, like "squealing up,", does not tax the vocal cords. At the Michigan State Fair in Detroit last week, champion hog-caller was Pete Hellner of Washtenaw County. Champion in husband-calling, rude distaff equivalent of hog-calling, was loud Margaret Droope of Oakland County...
Died, Ossip Salomonowitsch Gabrilowitsch, 58, famed Russian-born pianist, husband of Mark Twain's talented daughter Clara Clemens; since 1918 conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra; after long illness; in Detroit...
...Detroit last week 4,000 Packard dealers and distributors from all over the U. S. assembled for an infusion of inspiration. A barbecue dinner was served in a huge circus tent. President Alvan Macauley announced that Packard sales for the first eight months of 1936 had been 43,459 cars or 70% above a year ago. And on display, along with the Packard Twelve, the Packard Super-Eight, the Packard Eight and the Packard One-Twenty, was a brand new Packard Six with a 115 in. wheelbase priced to retail in the $800 class. This latest and cheapest addition...