Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exhibition. This year music is making a top-notch showing. This week Swift & Co. presented the Chicago Symphony in the first of a ten-week series of two-a-day free concerts on a shell built over the Lagoon. Also playing at the Fair is the Detroit Symphony, since mid-June an "exhibit" of Henry Ford. Another Ford musical exhibit was a 22-minute cinema for which a symphony orchestra played a special score composed by Edwin E. Ludig, musical director of Audio Productions, Inc., licensee of Electrical Research Products...
...Wightman Cup tennists (Helen Jacobs. Sarah Palfrey, Carolin Babcock, Josephine Cruickshank): 5 matches to 2, their series against England, for the fourth successive year; at Wimbledon. ¶Cavalcade, ridden by Mack Garner: the Detroit Derby, his fourth important stake race of the season, setting a new track record for 1 1/16 miles and adding $19,500 to his $77,000 winnings. ¶Dr. Alexander Alekhine of Paris: 15- points to 10½; a match of 26 games which started April 1 in Baden Baden, against Efim D. Bogoljubow. for the chess championship of the world; in Berlin...
...York contingent of the Stahl-helm (200) smuggled uniforms off German boats, owned six German military rifles, held drills, occasionally used guns borrowed from the National Guard, which many of them were encouraged to join by a Sergeant Gottlieb Haas. C. From Detroit, Henry Ford, who once singed his fingers in an anti-Semitism campaign, wired the committee that German reprints of his Dearborn Independent articles were being used against his orders...
Last week, large Olin Anthony Dutra was seized in his mighty middle by great gripes which he feared were amebic dysentery. He spent two days resting in Detroit, arrived in Philadelphia with a box of pills and the intention of watching the tournament instead of playing in it. His brother Mortie persuaded him not to withdraw his entry. With a caddy who had dreamed that he would win, Dutra started out, ambling slowly, using his niblick as a walking stick...
...Transportation Joseph B. Eastman . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. President Livingston Farrand of Cornell . . . . . . . . . . LL. D. President-elect Dixon Ryan Fox . . . . . . L.H.D. Eugene Meyer, onetime Governor of the Federal Reserve Board . . . . . . . . LL.D. Senator Cameron Morrison of North Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Dr. Florence Rena Sabin of Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research . . . Sc.D. University of Detroit (Detroit, Mich.) Vice President Charles Franklin Kettering of General Motors . . . . . . . . . D.E. University of Missouri (Columbia, Mo.) Chief Justice Ernest Sneed Gantt of Missouri's Supreme Court . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Astronomer Frederidck Henry Seares of Mt. Wilson Observatory . . . . . . . LL.D. University of Notre Dame (South Bend, Ind.) Executive Director Frank C. Walker...