Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Michigan was stirred last week when Edward H. Williams, new Wayne County auditor, lashed out hotly with the charge that at a training school for mental defectives near Detroit trickery was used to enforce the State sterilization law. Cried he: ''Mrs. Ainsworth violated all sense of justice and decency. . . . The father [ of a 19-year old] was violently opposed to having his boy subjected to this mutilation. She tricked the father into signing a consent order on the pretext that he was signing his son's release from the Wayne County Training School." Other cases which horrified...
Born. To Frank Couzens, 31, Mayor of Detroit, son of Michigan's Senator James Couzens; and Margaret Lang Couzens; a third son, sixth child; in Detroit. Weight: 10 Ib. 8 oz. Engaged. Grace Green Roosevelt, 22, only daughter of Theodore Roosevelt Jr., eldest granddaughter of the 26th President of the U. S.; and William McMillan. 28. Baltimore architect, yachtsman, big-game hunter. Engaged. Edith Cummings, 34, one-time (1923) women's national golf champion, equestrienne and big game hunter, last spinster of Chicago's famed Wartime ''Big Four" socialite beauty quartet;* and Curtis B. Munson...
Ferdinand Pecora, Inquisitor of the Senate's Banking and Currency Committee, last week found that Edsel Ford did not make an exciting witness. Son Ford, a director of the Guardian Detroit Union Group, owner of 50,000 shares of its stock, was exceedingly vague about what had gone on officially. Typical questions & answers...
...difference between identical twins is a subject of scientific study but differences between ordinary brothers are so common that even the public ignores them. Yet last week Detroiters found much interest in comparing two brothers, one Henry, aged 70, the other William, aged 62. Both raised on a Michigan farm, both now residents of Detroit's suburb Dearborn, both surnamed Ford. The data...
...company $412,900; its assets, none; his own assets, the red brick house he lives in near Dearborn's Main Street, a few shares of stock (which he offers to pledge to meet the claims of creditors), real estate in Livingston County, Mich., not one automobile. Detroiters who made this comparison did not find it odious, either to William or to Henry. They knew that Depression had been too much for William's business, that also an individualist, but in a different way, he would not ask help from Henry, would probably not accept it if offered. Last...