Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purveyor of office space to the Government, declared he thought the Social Security Board, Coal Commission and other new boards & bureaus would find it best to go to Baltimore or some other nearby city temporarily. ¶ In the style of General Hugh Johnson. Mr. Ickes slipped off to Detroit to deliver a speech assaulting anti-New Dealers. Excerpts...
...ordinary Miss Lonelyhearts is the Nancy Brown to whom these and hundreds of similar heartbleats were trustfully addressed, appearing first in her Experience Column in the Detroit News and last week in a book called Nancy's Family.* But not even her employers fully appreciated her power until she gave a party for her readers at Detroit's Art Institute five years ago. With Nancy Brown, Editor William S. Gilmore of the News set out to the party in his automobile, found streets for blocks around the Institute tightly packed with people. Summoning a traffic policeman, Mr. Gilmore...
That tale is now a Detroit legend. Police estimated the crowd at 100,000, and Nancy Brown began to rival Edgar A. Guest of the Detroit Free Press as the city's top literary figure. When she announced a religious Sunrise Service for her Column Family on Belle Isle last year, some 30,000 Detroiters crawled out of bed to attend. For a similar service this year attendance jumped, in Editor Gilmore's reckoning, by "two and a half acres" of people. When that alert local preacher named Edgar DeWitt Jones volunteered as Column Chaplain and invited Column...
Meantime all Detroit has asked, "Who is Nancy Brown?" Years ago the News's editors concluded that the best way to build up their columnist as a circulation-puller was to make a mystery of her identity. They have continued to whet Detroit's curiosity by creating around Nancy Brown's real name as titillating a hocus-pocus as that which made the reputations of The Man in the Iron Mask and radio's Your Lover. At her parties and religious services she mingles anonymously with the crowd. Only a few of her Column Folks have...
...married James Edward Leslie, Pittsburgh dramatic critic. After her husband's death in 1917 childless Widow Leslie filled in for a few months as dramatic editor of the Pittsburgh Dispatch, then went to live with relatives in Michigan. Late in 1918 she appeared at the office of the Detroit News, asked...