Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit Ncws is not discontinuing its own magazine section which is locally edited and contains quite a different type of material from that to be found in This Week...
...From Detroit the President received a 12,000-word prepaid telegram of advice, an event sufficiently unusual to be thought worth investigating. In Detroit two Secret Service men questioned the sender, one Christian D. Frederikson:, as to his reasons for spending over $100 on the message. Said Telegrapher Frederikson...
After a scant education in London's public schools, Richard Harrison began hopping bells in Detroit hotels. Stage struck, he went to a dramatic school for a short while, later made a precarious living by giving Shakespearean readings to Negro audiences in Canada. The next 40 years he spent as a dining car waiter on the Santa Fe running between Chicago and Los Angeles, as a police station handyman in Chicago, as a wanderer in the Deep South. At intervals he taught dramatics at North Carolina Agriculture & Engineering College, Branch Normal (Arkansas) and Flipper-Key College (Oklahoma). Mostly...
...named Transradio Press Service (TIME, Oct. 29). Last week Transradio celebrated its first birthday by announcing new customers in Newark, N. J., Louisville, Ky., Richmond, Va., and, most important, its first "national" sponsor, Continental Baking Co.'s "Wonder Bread." The Wonder Bread news programs begin this week in Detroit, Columbus, Akron, Dayton, Toledo...
Does the proletariat like it? An Italian who knows is His Excellency Tullio Cianetti, onetime organized labor boss in Turin ("Italy's Detroit"), today still exuberant and under 40 but a member of the Fascist Grand Council and President of the Corporative State's nation-wide Confederation of Workers in Industry...