Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Court battle progressed this lobby circulated with increasing vigor among its Senatorial friends and acquaintances. Three times a day Lobbyist Kennedy telephoned "Hacienda 13 F 11" at San Simeon to report progress, to receive instructions from his chief. Meantime the Hearstlings were aided by a great Voice booming from Detroit across the length & breadth of the land...
Priest. Rivaled in demagogic genius only by Germany's Hitler is Detroit's Father Charles E. Coughlin. Two Sundays ago the radiorating priest climaxed his battle against the World Court. In the course of his regular afternoon broadcast he appealed thus to uncounted millions: "Today, whether you can afford it or not, telegraph your Senator in Washington this simple, vital message: Vote 'no' on the World Court with or without reservations...
Sculpture is a heavy medium for humor. An exhibition by Detroit-born Stuart Benson at the Ferargil Galleries attracted attention last week because of a group of carved caricatures. Two were excellent, those of Adolf Hitler and of long-haired Gilbert White, the U. S.-born professional Montparnasse Bohemian (TIME, April 2). The rest of the 23 figures in the Benson show-garden figures, portrait heads, busts-were carefully wrought, eminently worthy. Like so many of his compatriots Sculptor Benson was a longtime resident of France. Left high by the receding dollar, he avoided Paris, ran a studio...
President of Theta Phi is Dr. Frederick Bohn Fisher, 52, lately of Ann Arbor's First Methodist Church, now of Detroit's First. Long a missionary bishop in India, Dr. Fisher became a good friend of St. Gandhi whom he calls "Boppo" ("Little Father"). An able, vigorous preacher, he arises daily at 4 a. m., gives 20%, of his income to his church, 55% to all causes. Entering his new job with gusto, Dr. Fisher promptly produced a quotation to justify Theta...
...spectators who do not feel obliged to remember their good manners. Lott & Stoefen may yet win a majority of their matches on the current tour. Like last year's, it will last 15 weeks, play in 74 cities. Next fortnight's billings: Boston, Providence, New Haven, Cleveland, Detroit, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Chicago, St. Louis...