Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moving to unite their private armies, declare war on both old Parties. In Chicago, Rev. Gerald L. K. ("Share-the-Wealth") Smith announced on behalf of himself and his new ally, Dr. Francis E. ("The Plan") Townsend, that they had reached "a loose working agreement" with the inflationist leaders, Detroit's Father Charles E. Coughlin and North Dakota's Representative William Lemke. To his new Manhattan headquarters went Father Coughlin to prepare for a radioration at week's end on "Why I Can Support Neither the New Deal nor the Old Deal." Questioned about a third party...
...Congress' banquet there were further alarms. President S. Wells Utley of Detroit Steel Casting Co. prophesied: "This coming campaign ... is one of the great decisive battles of the human race, and upon it hangs the future of our civilization. . . ." President Alex Dow of Detroit Edison Co. rambled through the question of the relations of women with business. The program closed on a foreboding note. Mme Alexandrine Cantacuzene, granddaughter of Ulysses S. Grant, talked on "Property Confiscation under a Revolutionary Government...
Second big yell went up when the Detroit Guild wired in that Wayne County's Prosecutor Duncan C. ("Dune") McCrea, long at outs with the Hearstian Detroit Times, was thinking of instituting a $100,000 libel suit against the paper for stating that he was a member of the terroristic Black Legion organization, and that if he did he would donate any proceeds from the suit to the Newspaper Guild to help fight for "underpaid Hearst employes...
After receiving the $65,000 commission, Milles worked four years at his studio in Cranbrook Academy of Art at Bloomfield Hills, near Detroit, to make a full-scale model which was shipped in sections to St. Paul, where the finished statue's 98 onyx blocks were carved and carefully lifted into place by a crew of workmen. The statue's turntable was motivated by a one-half h. p. motor which slowly swings the Indian 90° to the right in one hour, then 90° to the left next hour. From the second floor level...
...parlance of boxing, a Negro contender for the heavyweight championship, when this is held by a white, is a "black menace." When a black menace becomes champion, search starts for a "white hope." Boxing experts have been so sure that the current black menace-Joe Louis of Detroit-will win the heavyweight championship as soon as he fights the current holder, James J. Braddock, that talk about a white hope started prematurely as early as last autumn. Thus far no white hope has appeared, but last week it became apparent that if, after first disposing of Max Schmeling on June...