Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snort at Huey Long-but this country was never under a greater menace. ... It is somebody time for somebody to get up on his hind legs and howl !" Up on his hind legs was precisely where General Johnson got and howl he did at the radio pastor of Detroit's Shrine of the Little Flower: "While I do not for a moment compare Father Coughlin with Talleyrand, it is no exaggeration to say that, through the doorway of his priestly office, covered in his designs by the sanctity of the robe he wears. Father Coughlin, by the cheap strategy...
...Edward Clement Davidson of Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit discovered that he could coagulate burned surfaces by soaking them with tannic acid. The tanned coating kept body moisture from escaping, germs from entering...
...MOORE General Advertising Manager The Detroit Ncws New York City...
...Roosevelt and the pastor of Detroit's Shrine of the Little Flower drew different conclusions as to the worth of the Roosevelt Administration at the halfway mark. "The big achievement of the last two years is the great change in the thinking of the country,'' declared Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. ''I also think that in spite of criticism the administration of relief has been a great achievement." Included in the list of what she considered her husband's accomplishments: the Banking Bill, Tennessee Valley Authority ("a decided accomplishment"), CCC ("a grand thing"), subsistence homesteads...
...highways, finest in the world, are little better than Siberia's in dead of winter. That something should be done about it was suggested last week by John R. Adams, Detroit adman. His suggestion: Lay sheet steel surfacing on concrete imbedded with electrical heating units to melt ice & snow. Adman Adams believes his heated highways will be here...