Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Legion last week claimed 2,000,000 members. In Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Bishop Gibbons of Albany urged a Knights of Columbus convention to join. In Louisville, the League of Catholic Parent-Teacher Associations favored it. The Living Church (Episcopal) printed the pledge for its readers to sign. The Detroit Council of Churches (250,000 Protestants) has urged ministers to promote it. Besides Catholic action in such cities as Mobile, Rochester, Little Rock. St. Louis, Omaha, New Orleans and Spokane, interdenominational action has been taken in Denver, Galveston and San Francisco...
What Mardi Gras is to New Orleans and the Derby to Louisville, the 500-mile classic is to a city which once rivaled Detroit as an automobile manufacturing centre. Last week a crowd of 135,000 was sitting in the unroofed stands when the 33 cars, after gathering speed for a lap, rolled past the starter in groups of three. Around the 2½-mile brick oval with an unsteady, insistent roar, sidling awkwardly at the turns, straightening out for speed on the straightaways, whirled the bright-hued machines hardly bigger than toy-store cars. After 30 miles George Bailey...
...compiles the best record in official races. Race drivers who compete in short dirt track races not sanctioned by the A. A. A. may earn as much as $4,000 a year. Drivers good enough to get regular backing in such important races as those at Indianapolis, Oakland, Detroit and Syracuse, may earn up to $15,000 a year in prizes. Winning the Indianapolis Classic often means a job with a manufacturer. Tommy Milton, who won in 1921 and 1923, is on Packard's engineering staff. Billy Arnold, who won in 1930, is with Chrysler. Famed Ralph De Palma...
...ring of newshawks stood as they stand twice a week around President Roosevelt's desk, prodding him with questions, hoping for newsmaking answers. Correspondent Blair Moody of the Detroit News asked whether the President had any comment to make about accusations against the Collector of Internal Revenue for Michigan. The President looked blank, asked for details. After hearing them he frowned, ground out his cigaret. said that if such things were true they would have to end immediately. Next day agents of the Treasury Department turned up in Detroit. Three days later Secretary Morgenthau emerged from the White House...
Leading in importance the other '24 scholarship and fellowship awards to graduate students which were announced Saturday, stands the Jacob Wertheim Research Fellowship for the Betterment of Industrial Relationships, won by W. Ellison Chalmers of Detroit, Michigan. This fellowship with an endowment of $100,000 will enable Chalmers to spend a year in travel and study of his specialty, collective dealings in the automobile industry. A graduate of Wisconsin, he has spent the last year on research in the labor field...