Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still to be chosen were committees for Chicago, Detroit, Santa Fe, California. No sooner had the list been published than a resounding howl arose from academicians, long used to a monopoly of government decoration. Museum directors in every case headed the committees, but in those cities that had many museums the chairmanship seemed to fall to the curator who had the greatest sympathy for modernists. The New York Committee, which in the nature of things will have the greatest number of indigent artists to provide for, was viewed with greatest alarm. Smart Mrs. Juliana Force is the widow...
...Yawkey, foster son of the late Detroit Lumberman William Hoover Yawkey, celebrated his 30th birthday last February by buying the Boston Red Sox for $1,000,000. The club has been in or very near last place in the American League since 1924. Knowing Boston for an enthusiastic baseball town, Sportsman Yawkey set out to rebuild the team. Including last week's deals he spent $405,000 for new players. Also he replaced Marty McManus with Bucky Harris as manager. Result: dopesters conceded Boston a good chance to finish high next year. Philadelphia's Catcher Cochrane went...
...professional hockey games Ottawa and Winnipeg crowds respond to scientific team-play. In Manhattan clever work by visitors often wins great applause. Detroit and Chicago spectators are prone to throw eggs when matters displease them. But nowhere is sheer roughness on the ice a greater drawing card than in bloodthirsty Boston. There one night last week fans got more than their money's worth when the Toronto Maple Leafs trounced the Boston Bruins...
...Secretary, Watson Bldg., Fairmont, W. Va.; Harvard Club of Cincinnati, Franklin H. Lawson '21, Secretary, Evans & Whateley Sts., Cincinnati, Ohio; Harvard Club of Dayton, Louis R. Mahrt, Secretary, 901-905 Winters Bank Bldg., Dayton, Ohio; Harvard Club of Michigan, John D. Rice, Secretary, 2288 First National Bank Bldg., Detroit, Mich.; Harvard Club of Chicago, Dwight Ingram '16, Secretary, 14 E. Jackson Bivd., Chicago...
...Detroit, Jews were irate because, at a Catholic conference on Industrial Problems, President George Hermann Derry of Detroit's Marygrove College (Catholic) had said: "A few international Jews hold a stranglehold on the world supply of gold that enables them to decide the destiny of nations, to make and unmake cabinets, and to rule the fate of mankind...