Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Detroit and the State of Michigan turned St. Valentine's Day into "Eddie Guest Day." The occasion roughly commemorated Edgar Albert Guest's 54 years of life, his 40 years in newspaper work, his 25 years of writing popular verse. Seven hundred Detroiters jammed into the Statler Hotel for a testimonial dinner. A troupe of radio actors broadcast dramatized episodes of Rhymester Guest's life. And Motormaker Henry Ford's mouthpiece, William J. Cameron, spoke for thousands of Guest addicts in & out of Michigan when he declared...
Architect Gilbert had a proud record of achievement. From his drafting boards had come Manhattan's Woolworth Building, the Minnesota Capitol, the New York Customs House, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, the Detroit Public Library-all of them handsome, elaborate, rich in borrowed decoration. On the Supreme Court Building, Chief Justice Taft gave him three orders: "The building must conform in design with the Capitol. It should be enduring. And Mrs. Taft says it should be easy to keep clean...
What the Department of Justice last week announced as a "major victory" in a war against natural gas monopolies encouraged the "monopoly" in question to invest $8,000,000 in the construction of a 300-mile pipe line to Detroit. Target of the U. S. Government was Columbia Gas & Electric Corp., which supplies manufactured gas, natural gas and electricity to some 1,326 cities and towns in Indiana, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Maryland and New York. Specific allegations involved the relations between Columbia Oil & Gasoline Corp., an affiliate of Columbia Gas & Electric, and Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. This...
...reason to suppose that future relations between the two companies would be anything but amicable. Immediately following the acceptance of the consent decree, Columbia Gas & Electric announced that it would begin work on a new pipe line running from the eastern end of the Parish line to Detroit. This pipe line may be operated under the auspices of Columbia Oil & Gasoline or directly by Columbia Gas & Electric. Another $8,000,000 will be spent on enlarging the capacity of Panhandle Eastern and other existing lines. From Columbia's standpoint, the new line has two outstanding merits: 1) Detroit...
...Marshall Reed, of Detroit's second largest Methodist church, preached: "There has been a marked tendency in recent years . . . to label anyone who questions our status quo a 'Communist.' . . . Communism presents a definite challenge to the Christian religion. If Christianity cannot create a better social order . . . then there is little hope for the universal Kingdom...