Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alfred Emanuel Smith, Associate Justice Pierce Butler of the U. S. Supreme Court, Lawyer Francis Patrick Garvan, the four U. S. Cardinals, ten archbishops and ten bishops were among the distinguished Catholics invited to attend the dedication last Sunday of a handsome church in the suburbs of Detroit. Those who accepted beheld a Norman stone edifice blessed by Detroit's Bishop Michael James Gallagher. What made this ceremony notable was that the church is one of the few parish churches in the U. S. maintained on a layman's estate, perhaps the only one in which lay Catholics...
...vigorously devout Catholic, Adman MacManus is a Knight of Malta, a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory, an honorary doctor from Notre Dame, Detroit and Marquette Universities. Practiced at writing books such as Men, Money & Motors and The Sword Arm of Business, he turned to Catholic apologetics in An Enemy Sowed Cockles. Sympathetic with the interest of Pope Pius XI in Chinese education, Layman MacManus helped found the Catholic University of Peiping. All this smoothed the way for a request he made of the Holy See five years ago. Of the six MacManus sons and daughters...
...play six nights and one matinee a week at Cleveland's Great Lakes Exposition, a Great Lakes Symphony was organized, drawing 100 men from the Cleveland Symphony, Detroit Symphony. New York Philharmonic Symphony. Guest leaders during the summer were to be Hans Kindler of Washington, D. C., Erno Rapee of the radio, Frank Black. National Broadcasting Co.'s general musical director. Karl Krueger of Kansas City and that most ubiquitous of summer conductors, Jose Iturbi. Also during the summer in Cleveland's Public Auditorium the Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Symphonies would be sandwiched in between free concerts...
...Belle Isle near Detroit this week the Detroit Symphony, heeled with $185,000 raised in a maintenance drive, was to begin the first series of free nightly concerts since 1931. Conductor: Victor Kolar of the Ford radio symphony...
...York's Yankee Stadium last week, Germany's Max Schmeling knocked out Detroit's Negro Joe Louis in the twelfth round of a scheduled 15-round prizefight...