Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drawing room of Lawrence P. Fisher, President of Cadillac Motor Car Co., Detroit's seven shy, body-building Fisher Brothers seated their mother in a high-backed armchair, posed for their first picture together (see cut). Famed for their family loyalty, the Fisher Brothers are especially solicitous for white-haired Mrs. Margaret .Fisher. Starting with Brother Fred on Sunday, each has a special evening on which he pays her a weekly call. Last week Mrs. Fisher had a birthday. Present at a reception in Brother Lawrence's house, largest of the seven large Fisher houses, were three Fisher...
...merged, but not until the last election did Preacher Bigelow get a seat on the municipal council. Meantime he had worked up a hub bub against utility companies. He had also joined Father Coughlin's National Union For Social Justice, sitting on the platform at meetings with the Detroit radio priest and vigorously proselytizing members of his own private "People's Church...
...Simmons '07, Baltimore, Md., for Maryland; Perey W. Brown '08, Cleveland, O., for North Ohio; Chaster I. Barnard '10, Newark, N. J., for New Jersey; Charles H. Wolfe '10, Pittsburgh, Pa., for West Pennsylvania; Clarence B. Randall '12, Chicago, III., for central Div., Chicago; Hale G. Knight '13, Detroit, Mich., Michigan...
...Vhat have really beaten the Colonel," declared the Detroit Free Press, "are the persecutions, rowdiness and brutalities of the sensational newspapers...
Meantime Secretary of Commerce Hoover was handling his own press relations with surprising skill. A picked group of Washington correspondents, headed by Jay Hayden of the Detroit News and Roy Roberts of the Kansas City Star, went regularly to the Hoover office to be treated to encyclopedic and immensely helpful disquisitions on current national and international problems. Their mentor's name did not appear in the resulting dispatches, but the grateful newsmen saw to it that the Secretary of Commerce's light was not hidden under a bushel...