Word: detroit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...haired Ruth Tower-Corsan of Toronto: $3,000, first prize for the 10-mile Dominion Championship swim; in 5½ hr., with Evelyn Armstrong of Detroit second; in Lake Ontario...
...Moines, where he was conducting evangelistic services at the Pentecostal Church of God, Dr. Charles Arthur De Bussy Du Bugginsdale Vincent Maurice John Courtney Hetherington, 45, was arrested on a charge of stealing Bibles in Detroit...
Henry Ford, Herbert Hoover, President Roosevelt, Senator James Couzens, the banks' officials, the Depression and J. Pierpont Morgan have all, individually and in sundry paradoxical combinations, been blamed for Detroit's banking troubles (TIME, Aug. 28 et ante). Last week Detroit was amazed to hear that a highly successful 18th Century London stockbroker whose father was a Dutch Jew was really responsible...
...frankly admitted warning President Hoover that if the R. F. C. made a huge loan to Detroit's big banks he would "denounce it from the housetops," but he asserted Washington officialdom from President Hoover down was opposed to the loan and for the same reason: inadequate security. The R. F. C., he said, was gun-shy after the public furor over Charles Gates Dawes's $90,000,000 loan and, aware of the nation wide banking crisis, was leery of sinking millions in Detroit. Furthermore R. F. C. Chairman Miller considered the loan "immoral" because the collateral...
...failure to reopen after the March holiday, that was clearly Detroit's own fault, said the Senator. Treasury officials were refusing to grant clean bills of health to any unsound bank and Detroit had been unable to agree on a reorganization plan. It was poppycock to claim that the banks were and still are solvent, snorted the Senator; months before they closed their solvency "was a matter of question"; if First National had written off the $49,000,000 that Federal examiners labeled losses, it would have been "hopelessly insolvent" in May 1932. Asked why the bank...