Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Local Government, represented by the Mayors of 26 important U. S. cities, met in Detroit last week to beg the Federal Government for a helping hand to carry the burden of urban unemployment and public distress. The meeting was called by aggressive, hard-bitten Mayor Frank Murphy of Detroit, which has spent itself almost to the brink of bankruptcy supporting its needy.* On hand among the 20 Democrats, four Republicans, one Socialist and one Farmer-Laborite, were New York's Walker, Boston's Curley, Richmond's Bright, Syracuse's Marvin, New Orleans' Walmsley, Miami's Gautier, Milwaukee's Hoan, Cleveland...
...Tommy Paul, Buffalo boxer: the world's professional featherweight championship by beating Johnny Pena of Manhattan in the National Boxing Association's contest for Battalino's outgrown title; in Detroit...
...famed feature of President Hoover's legend is his fondness for children. Last week, shepherded by the manager of the bus line which brought them from Detroit, Clifford (10), Irene (n) and Bernice Feagan (13) arrived at the White House. Their father, a refrigerator mechanic, was held in Detroit on a Federal charge of stealing an automobile from a St. Joseph, Mo. piano tuner seven months ago. The father's plea was that he had taken the car to Detroit with the owner's consent to sell...
...history of the Detroit Free Press, 1931 stands out as the paper's 100th Anniversary. Last week it was made a twofold milestone when five Free Press reporters were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the year's best job of reporting. The story was an account of the American Legion parade in Detroit last September. The five winners, who shared the work and will share the $1,000 prize, are: portly, bald William C. Richards, 46; short Douglas D. Martin, 45 (Sunday editor); Frank D. Webb, James S. Pooler, N. W. John Sloan...
...five wove a spectacular, minutely detailed account of a massive scene. First and final columns, written by Reporters Richards and Martin respectively, were heavy with "atmosphere," shy of specific detail. The lead read as if it might have been written and dressed up before the Legion even appeared in Detroit. First paragraphs...