Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back on his job as a Ford salesman in Detroit was Prince Louis Ferdinand von Hohenzollern, 25, second in succession to the German throne since his brother Wilhelm married a commoner (TIME, June 12). Salesman Hohenzollern spent most of a six-month vacation in Doom, Holland, failed to sell a Ford to the ex-Kaiser, who calls him "our little American." Said he: "Grandpa certainly is keen about your President Roosevelt...
...where the crises were passed months before President Roosevelt's national moratorium. But in three of the biggest cities of the land banks still splash the front pages with considerable regularity.* In Philadelphia the news is the prosecution or conviction of officers in several small defunct institutions. In Detroit it is the desperate effort to find out why its biggest banks were (and still are) shut tight.† In Cleveland it is the muckraking of Ohio's State Senate bank investigating committee. While liquidators began mailing the first payoff checks to some 400,000 depositors in Cleveland...
...best mile race of the year but the greatest of all time. The British team was already on its way to a final 4-to-8 defeat when Bonthron Lovelock, John Hazen (Cornell) and Forbes Horan (Cambridge) went to the mark. For a week Bonthron, a junior from Detroit, winner of this year's intercollegiate 1,500-metre event, and Lovelock, a slim New Zealander from Dunedin where he ran three years for Otago University, had been sizing each other up. As a medical student, Jack Lovelock did not fail to notice with respect the power ful back muscles...
Game In Chicago, playing hide-&-seek Edward Sarkan, 13, hid in a box car, got two days later in Detroit...
...star teams representing the National and American Leagues played what was advertised as "The Game of the Century." Ruth came to bat in the third inning. Pitcher Hallahan of the St. Louis Cardinals, wild in the second inning when the American League scored its first run. had already given Detroit's Gehringer a base on balls. Now, pitching to Ruth, he made the mistake of trying to whip a strike across the plate. There was that sharp familiar crack and the ball sailed up over first base into the pavilion beyond right field...