Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henry Ford, who knows about motorcars, informed a group of summer campers near Detroit: "I believe those three submarine disasters were caused by sabotage. It is all a scheme by financial war makers to get this country into war. Of course they'll blame Germany but I don't think Germany is responsible. The real truth is that wars are over with, and the financial war makers don't know...
Scarring the green breast of one of the fields on Motormaker Henry Ford's "Fairlane" estate near Detroit is a 60-foot plowed furrow. Around it Ford workmen have built a fence. Over it they have laid a tarpaulin. Why this has been done no Ford employe knows for sure, but most could hazard a sound guess: the furrow is to be preserved for posterity to look at; it will be included in the intriguing mass of Ford memorabilia which includes Luther Burbank's shovel (thrust into a block of concrete), a reproduction of the hole...
...Fair corporation enterprise, this little Louvre advertised nothing but the public spirit of a few rich sponsors and the taste of the man who assembled it, the Detroit Museum's grey, spare, spry Director Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner. Twice as big as the Old Masters exhibition at the San Francisco Exposition (TIME, March 6), it covered every major school of European art up to the French Revolution. It was remarkable also in that no less than 88 works were being shown publicly for the first time in the U. S. Lent by great foreign museums or private and inaccessible collections...
...United Automobile Workers of America last week showed its muscle by winning exclusive recognition (but no closed shop) from the Briggs Manufacturing Co. in Detroit, called off a strike which had tied up Chrysler and Lincoln plants as well, by depriving them of Briggs auto bodies (TIME, June 12). Having just taken his minority U. A. W. back into A. F. of L., President Homer Martin thereupon displayed his muscle. He demanded that big General Motors recognize his union to the exclusion of C. I. O., called a strike in three G. M. plants and threatened more...
...Detroit, Bus Driver Guy Hinton, fed up with years of driving the same old route, felt the need of a change. He turned off his prescribed route, went left or right whenever he felt like it, finally just drove in circles. Said he to startled passengers: "You can't get off until I'm ready to stop...