Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit, Mich...
...Best Customers." In nearly all past years the U. S. has been Canada's best customer, and vice versa. Why should she buy English motor cars when Detroit is so near? Surely the U. S., where there is also unemployment, is the ideal and adjacent place in which to fulfill Canada's manufacturing needs. Unfortunately for the U. S. things are not so simple as that...
Mental hygiene interests the Protestant Episcopal Church. A chief feature of the Summer Conference for Church Workers of the Middle West, in session last week at Racine, Wis., was a course in psychiatry by Rev. Herbert Ralph Higgins of St. Paul's Cathedral, Detroit, who explained: "If the church does not move forward to newer fields of knowledge, she cannot complain if medicine takes them over...
...Nick, the 800-lb. blue gnu in Detroit's zoological park, is a bad actor. He has killed one of his mates, two of their calves. Last week Big Nick was in another bad humor: his new mate had just presented him with another calf. Gus Mott, 63-year-old farmer turned zookeeper, feared Big Nick less than he feared the big ostrich hen that lived in the next pen. One day last week the ostrich turned on Keeper Mott, raised her horny foot to strike. Keeper Mott ran, vaulted the wall, landed on hands & knees in the gnus...
...caused more real anxiety among Michigan's faculty than any man who ever lived in Ann Arbor. He used to work on the Michigan Daily and his editorials tearing down administrative and personal actions on the campus were nothing short of libel. He got a job with the Detroit News, then the Detroit Times, and the Morning Telegraph (New York), and ended up on the A. P. news staff. In 1927 he founded Plain Talk after having written a successful novel called Backfurrow...