Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ford. In Detroit Edsel Ford received a letter threatening death unless $5,000 was left on the back porch of a home in the city's northeast section. The money was duly left in a candy box. A tenant nearly ruined the case by picking it up by mistake. Soon, however, Edward Lickwala, 20, son of a onetime Ford worker, appeared to offer Federal agents information. He gave more information than he intended. Arrested, he quickly pleaded guilty and was sentenced to ten years in Leavenworth...
...penalty of 25% to 35% on its net income for the year. Last week the Treasury revealed that it had levied such penalties on some 100 U. S. corporations. Prime targets on its lists were personal holding companies. Most famed was Fisher & Co.. holding company of Detroit's six Fisher brothers (automobile bodies), down for $17,199,797 for alleged evasions in 1929 and 1930. Others and penalties assessed: Rands, Inc. (W. C. Rands of Detroit's Motor Products Corp.), $1,047,999; San Francisco's Matson Securities Co., $874,377: Delaware-Olmstead...
...Chicago last week, a committee of baseball writers announced the winners of their annual poll to determine the most valuable player in each major league. Most valuable National: Pitcher Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean of the St. Louis Cardinals. Most valuable American: Catcher-Manager Gordon Stanley ("Mickey") Cochrane of the Detroit Tigers...
...World Champion St. Louis Cardinals, Pitcher Dean last season won 30 games, lost 7, best National League pitching record since 1915. For the pennant-winning Detroit Tigers, Catcher Cochrane last season played in 121 games, had a batting average of .321, a fielding average of .988, made only eight errors...
...they were pitching in exhibition games while waiting to start a vaudeville tour which may bring their post-season earnings to $20,000, Dizzy Dean and his brother Paul ("Daffy") announced that they would demand that their salaries ($7,500 and $3,500 respectively) be raised next year. In Detroit last week the employers who last year bought him for $100,000 from Philadelphia, paid Manager Cochrane a $10,000 bonus...