Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also last week the Board effected a neat propaganda coup at the Packard plant in Detroit. For nation-wide consumption, Francis E. Ross, accounting professor at the University of Michigan who is in charge of the elections, carefully explained for the newsreels the mechanics of the balloting as pictures were taken of Packard workers going to the polls. The Packard vote, a primary election to select 40 men to run for places on a 20-man collective bargaining agency, went: 2,657 for unaffiliated candidates; 2,131 for company union candidates; no for the A. F. of L. union...
...nail holes were not mistaken!" exulted the Pittsburgh Press. The Philadelphia Inquirer boomed: "Justice well deserved has come to the man Hauptmann!" To various journals the verdict was: "logical" (Boston Transcript), "healthy" (Knoxville Journal), "salutary" (Albany News), "memorable" (Minneapolis Daily Sun), "in accord with law and fact'' (Detroit Free Press...
...what was happening. The campus was decorated with statues made of ice and snowmen twelve feet high. The first night of the Carnival, the Outing Club gave its pageant-"Jottunheimer Eiskorneval"-a preposterous affair about Norwegian snow gods and a fancy-skating maiden. A committee chose Pauline Webster of Detroit, a pretty blonde girl who works on the Detroit News, Queen of the Snows, but no one could find the silver cup on which the Queen's name is annually engraved. A freshman, Richard Durrance, was crowned King...
...name is Lotte Lehmann.* Lotte Lehmann began her busy season with the San Francisco Opera, later sang in opera in Philadelphia, in Chicago. One of her 24 recitals was in Manhattan last week, when pure German Lieder brought an uproar of applause. Lotte Lehmann's next stop was Detroit where she sang over the radio on the Ford Symphony Hour. She hurried then to Boston to sing in the famed old mansion which belonged to Mrs. Jack Gardner who had Nellie Melba for her guest there 30 years ago. Back in Manhattan she was then to sing in Lohengrin...
...Henry Ford owned the New York Times; if he did not treat it as a plaything but visited its plant every day; if he shuttled between Detroit, Manhattan and Washington, lending the President of the U. S. his ear and printing editorials that obviously originated in the White House -the result would be very much like something that exists in Italy...