Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Frederick Fremont Ingram, 76, "Father of the U. S. Parcel Post System," founder of Detroit's Frederick F. Ingram & Co. (pharmaceutical products); in San Diego, Calif...
Died. Charles A. Brownell, 79, long-time dean of Detroit advertising men, president until 1912 of Brownell & Humphrey (sold out to J. Walter Thompson), advertising manager for Ford Motor Co. (1912-18), manager with two sons of the Ford State agency in Alabama; in Birmingham, Ala. He wrote some of the first automobile advertising copy when cars used tillers instead of steering wheels (Oldsmobile, Packard, Northern which later became Studebaker...
...Cadman went into pious colyumny. Famed liberal preacher, now co-rector of St. James's Protestant Episcopal Church in downtown Philadelphia, Dr. Newton had been solicited by General Manager Monte Bourjaily of United Feature Syndicate, who had heard of him from Editorial Director Malcolm W. Bingay of the Detroit Free Press...
Molly's case was no different from thousands of others. Young, pretty, fairly intelligent, she went from factory to factory as the economic spirit drove her. Outside of work hours she lived. When Bill got a good job in Detroit and sent for her. Molly was pleased to go, pleased to be a married woman and not work in a factory any more. But boom times went quickly, jobs got scarce, finally nonexistent. Bill and Molly quarreled, patched it up. Optimistic Molly thought things would pick up soon, but Bill knew better. He thought & thought till he had decided...
Izzy operated mostly in New York, but he was sent as far afield as Mobile, Detroit, Los Angeles. He never carried a gun, reports having been shot at only once, and that time the gun jammed. He had lots of fun with his job. At one German beer-garden, masquerading as a reveler, he made so much noise he was asked to sing a solo, which he did with great gusto. Then he announced: "This concludes the evening's entertainment, ladies & gentlemen. The place is pinched. For I am Izzy Einstein, the Prohibition Agent...