Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From Detroit emanated a hint that foxy Mr. Ford was only waiting to see what kind of code his competitors would adopt, then go them all one better with a more generous code...
...Before Detroit became the City of Automobiles, horses in its streets were frequently set snorting and rearing by an inventive small boy scudding along in a "sailing wagon." Police stopped that. Last week sedate Massachusetts Institute of Technology proudly revealed that the boy, now a bald, mustached, crisp-mannered man of 47, had accepted an offer to become head of its department of mechanical engineering...
...Senator James Couzens is not a tactful man. Last week in Detroit, where he got his riches as Henry Ford's foreman-partner and his radicalism as a rambunctious police commissioner, silver-crowned Senator Couzens bluntly accused his home town bankers of pulling down their temples on their own heads...
...Detroit has waited a long time to hear Michigan's Senior Senator tell his story of the banking fiasco which Judge Harry B. Keidan has been probing off & on all summer (TIME, Aug. 7). For in all the reckless charges and counter-charges that have been hurled since Detroit's banks were closed last St. Valentine's Day, there has been one unifying theme: that in some mysterious way Senator James Couzens was the man who threw the monkey-wrench into the creaking machine...
Irked by this notion of his constituents, he cabled Judge Keidan from the London Economic Conference last month that "complete testimony cannot be given without my presence." Last week he kept insisting that he knew more than he would tell, and if Detroit's bankers failed to furnish all the facts, Senator Couzens hinted darkly that he would then give the public the truth...